Word: million
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...annual Yale University report, President Dwight calls attention to the proposed bi-centennial celebration of 1901. It is proposed to build a University Hall costing half a million, as well as other buildings that will bring the necessary sum of money up to nearly...
...been found by experiment with this apparatus that air submitted to an electrical pressure of over two million volts becomes a fairly good conductor. In order to insulate the apparatus, it is placed three feet above the floor, and even in this position, luminous discharges from the apparatus to the floor and the room is darkened...
RATTLE has made a careful calculation that the ice in the ice house of the River-side Recreation Grounds will make two million quarts of ice cream. He has advised the management to arrange for a large supply as he thinks it will be needed...
...Princeton University library has been opened to the undergraduates. The northern half of the building is finished and provides space for half a million volumes. The Chancellor Green Library will be closed until after the Christmas vacation. The interior will be entirely remodelled and it will hereafter be used as a working library and reading room. About 20,000 carefully selected books will be placed...
Yale University has received almost a half a million dollars in endowments during the last fiscal year...