Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...SALE. - The cutter "Daisy" by Fay, Southampton; 32 ft. over all; 8 1-2 ft. beam; lead keel; 8 1-4 tons; suit 14 sails, mostly linen, by Lapthome; complete outfit. Apply to J. N. Palmer, 68 Thayer...
...west the latter part of the time, and in short if Stoughton had gone all the houses in town to the Eastward of the College would have gone. I think I never saw so great a strife of elements before, it is supposed the Fire began in the Beam under the hearth of the Library, the Gov'r. and a great number of the Court assisted in extinguishing the Fire, it being vacation no person in the college, the Fire was past stopping Harvard before it was perceived. I hope the K - g will give something to repair the loss...
...than the overwhelming triumph of a team which has gained perfection in secrecy and lulled her adversary into over-confidence? We are not free from fault ourselves, - let us try to remove the mote from our own eye, and then congratulate our New Haven rival in extracting the weighty beam from hers...
...were begun at the request of U. S. Signal Service by Prof. Trowbridge on the subject of atmospheric electricity with a view to learn its value for meteorological purposes. The method employed was that known as the Thompson one and required very delicate instruments. The result is that a beam of light from a gas flame is reflected from a mirror upon a prepared sheet of sensitried paper and the record of any change in the place of an electric needle is thus obtained by photography. The apparatus in use has several new points in its arrangements that will undoubtedly...
...knotch was cut in the side of the pile about three inches deep and in this an upright brace was fixed upon which the sleeper running back into the boat house rested. This sleeper did not extend as far out as the pile, but was mortised into the tranverse beam extending along the front of the platform which supported the lower platform and the pillar running up the upper platform. This pillar, however, patched as it was, did not rest entirely on the transverse or facing beam, but partially on the sleeper running back into the boat house. The weight...