Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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LOST.- A note-book, 8 inches long, 5 1-2 inches wide, 1 inch thick. 4 Divinity Avenue...
...Cambridge, you can form no adequate idea of the extent and fierceness of the blizzard through which New York has just passed. Business was stopped and communication with the outside world shut off. The cold was intense and a coating of ice was formed on the East River thick enough to bear the weight of a large crowd who availed themselves of this opportunity of crossing the river. The drifts in the city were enormous and few cabs ventured out after "fares." The demand for conveyances was wide-spread and exorbitant prices were paid for rides. A number of Wall...
Then our correspondent informs us that "it was deemed expedient" to get an English shell, but, as it would not do to rely entirely on this innovation it was thought wise to buy another American shell. Either we are absolutely thick-headed or else there is some flaw in the reasoning of men who "deemed it expedient" to get an English shell and still found it necessary to buy a new American shell. Nothing is farther from us than to wish to have the chances of our crew in any way injured by a fear of spending the necessary money...
...number of views of glacial scratches and the pebbles which made them were next shown, while the cause of their formation was being explained. Then pictures of glacial deposits some 95 feet thick were presented. Cedar logs of large size are often buried in these and the lecturer said that while camping in Alaska his only fuel was preglacial woods many thousands of years...
There will be a fierce contest in football between tables 41 and 36 Memorial Hall, to-morrow morning, at 10 o'clock. Not much science will be displayed, but gore, red and merry, will flow fast and thick...