I sent down dhobies, sweepers, cooks, and mallees, last to dig trenches for burying the dead, when burning was not possible.

He had completed his plan to develop a new office building, but was blindsided by the sudden drop in real estate values.

The Greenwich Hospitality Group, which manages the Delamar Hotel in Greenwich, still has a contract with the partnership to manage the inn, which will not operate as a condotel after all, according to Jonathan Wise, the company’s vice president for hotel development.

For example, in using the telescope to determine the position of a star or some distant mark, it would be adjusted until the image of the star, formed by the object, coincided with the intersection of the cross wires.