Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...present force of fifty men, the field will be finished about the middle of next month. At present they are digging trenches all over the 20 acres, in which the gravel from the now levelled banks is put, while the loam thus thrown up is spread 10 inches thick over the entire surface. The dike is being strengthened against the tide; and the few remaining acres beyond will be gradually filled by college refuse. A few trees have been left, thus breaking the monotony of the level ground. The whole field will be drained through a tide-gate, which...
...there be days in life when men stand at once in the full sight of the highest uses of human existence, and also with the sound of the great uproar of human energy filling their ears, days when the quiet years behind them are thick with great visions of character and truth, and the busy years upon whose border their feet stand are calling them with the abundant testimony of activity and power-must not these be the days in which men catch the spirit of St. Paul, days when they crave the livest power for the highest work, both...
...volume of water to be moved was too great and the current did not move with any freedom, nor did the rowing offer any resemblance to boating. The clumsiness of the oars was made by cutting a large hole in the blade and tacking upon the remaining portions thick strips of wood. The water going through the hole made the oar feel dead, while the strips of wood on the blades made them very heavy. There was a tendency in all of the oars to sink in the water so that a great effort was necessary to keep them...
...under pressure. The trial was made with a hydraulic ram crushing the ice in a steel cylinder. The ice was not liquefied by a pressure of twelve tons to the square inch, equal to sixteen hundred atmospheres or to the weight of a mass of ice twelve miles thick. A series of experiments on the subject will be carried...