Word: downward
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opportunities of a career in practical Geology and Engineering. He said that he considered the outlook for geologists in this country to be a very promising one. The state surveys and those made by the government employ about 1500 men, who receive salaries ranging from $4000 a year downward. The pay a man may expect to receive his first year is about $50 a month and field expenses. One of the best tields for a geologist is in the mines. The salary of a mine superintendent in the eastern part of the United States is usually...
...that the University was an individual which could not be divided and the degradation or uplifting of a part of its members could not help but degrade or uplift the whole and that every one by his own life was bound to do his best to overcome the downward tide...
...motion a carefully balanced ball weighing 20 lbs., but only when the force is slowly applied. When a force is exerted suddenly, considerable resistance is offered even by as mobile a body as air. Birds are enabled to fly only by the resistance of the air during the downward stroke of the wings. During the upward stroke, less resistance is offered, owing to the fact that the wing is convex on the upper side, and is at the same time contracted in area, thus moving with less velocity. In fact instantaneous photographs show that it takes twice the time...
...Swan's Secret" is an interesting tale of the downward career of an Italian noble in the guise of a revolutionist. There is a pathetic current running through it, and the individuality of the writer is at times strongly marked. The idea of introducing the swans at the end of the story is a very happy...
...copy of "Jack, the Fisherman," Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' new story. Although it is a tale with a moral, it is one of the most powerful and interesting stories ever written. It is the life of a Gloucester fisherman who, inheriting a taste for rum, rapidly follows the downward course, and ends by killing his wife and himself, leaving a little child to face the world alone. No story could be more sad and pathetic. In it are clearly shown the influence of a good woman and the susceptibility of even hardened men to it. Few can read such...