Word: existence
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...next set of maps accepts a boundary starting at Cape Nassau. These were probably constructed on the theory that, although the Essequibo was the real boundary, geographers must represent facts as they exist. There are seventeen maps of this kind, many of them by men of established reputation...
...second advantage of great importance is a higher degree of stability gained for the compounded mass of money thus formed, than could possibly exist with the two metals separate. The principle is the same as that by which two reservoirs of water, when connected, moderate each other's change of level by the increase of surface...
...Melville said in effect: Less than a century ago an engineer would have seemed out of place before an audience in Cambridge. Now he meets with a cordial appreciation and sympathy, which is a token of the closer relations which are beginning to exist between the literary and the scientific professions...
Doubtless the rays exist in common electric lights and in sunlight, but as yet scientists have proved their existence only in a vessel such as Crooke's tube. With these invisible rays photographs can be taken at any time, even in the sunlight. In connection with the cathode photographs it is interesting to note the length of exposure that has been necessary to take photographs at different periods. The table is as follows...
...Only in such can close friendships be formed.- (2) This club would be too large.- (b) Non-club men would not meet club men.- (1) Two sets of men have nothing in common.- (2) Nothing in new club to induce men to leave the old.- (c) Cliques would exist in the club.- (1) Cliques are indissolubly formed and fostered by preparatory schools and existing clubs...