Word: area
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meridian to the Pacific ocean, between the 100th and the 105th lies the so called "debatable ground." an enormous piece of territory upon which agriculture is in some years profitable, in others, not. Washington Oregon, and the northern part of California are excluded from this rough outline. The total area is about 1.300,000 square miles, or 40 per cent. of the United States. The question is how to make this region profitable for agriculture...
...will be made with a double lens, a new form not yet adopted by European astronomers, but considered by Professor Pickering far superior to single lens telescopes. It will have an aperture of twenty-four inches. Its focal length will be short, and consequently it will include a large area of the sky at once, and will also obtain images of very faint stars and nebulae. With this telescope, Professor Pickering expects to accomplish as much as seventeen other observatories working together according to a plan recently matured at Paris. The lenses will require almost as much metal...
...Articles I-VIII settles by compromise the three mile limit and headland question.- (a) A compromise is the best way of settling the different claims:- Dr. Snow in Forum for Dec. 1887, p. 347.- (b) Area yielded is to our advantage; Senate Minority Report. p. 89.- (c) We yielded inshore fisheries and they are of little value; Edmunds in Senate Report in Message on Fishery Treaty 1888, p. 584; Concessions yielded by Great Britain in Speech of Saulsbury, Congressional Record...
...reading room. Both stacks have a large number of large bay windows, furnishing excellent reading alcoves for special study. The general reading-room is one hundred and twenty-six feet by sixty-six; it has desk-room for two hundred and thirty-two readers and a window area of one thousand and twenty-five square feet to a floor area of six thousand six hundred and twelve square feet, thus being plentifully supplied with light during the day time. All around the reading-room are book-cases sufficient to contain a reference library of fourteen thousand six hundred volumes...
...part of the apparatus which will be carried to Peru is a light portable frame building of one story with a ground area of three hundred square feet, which is to be the observatory of the party; the scarcity of wood and carpenters in Peru makes it prudent to build this here. The class of work which the expedition will undertake comes under the terms of the Boyden bequest. The cost of the work upon the Stella spectra is sustained by the Draper Memorial Fund...