Word: faintest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...other, perhaps, carried the substance of his thread, as the spider does, in himself, and each of his Essays is a kind of web wherein to entangle every winged thing (of the smaller kind) that comes along, while he, sitting at the centre, feels from all quarters the faintest vibration that gives promise of mental food. Not a chance mote can be driven against it by the wind that does not send a thrill to the brain along some one of these subtile intellectual fibres stretched seemingly at random in every direction, yet bound one to the other by flying...
...Bruce telescope, being but 24 inches, is much smaller than many now in use in this country yet in many respects it will be the most powerful ever constructed. Its chief point is its adaptibility for use in the construction of maps and study of the spectra of the faintest stars. It will remain in Cambridge some time before being sent to Peru...
...note additional proof of the strong sense of honor and justice which we have always claimed characterizes Harvard men as a body. The offices of the sophomore class elected at the meeting last Thursday night furnish this proof in their refusal to accept the officers so long as the faintest suspicion of their right to them exists. In calling a second meeting for the election of the class officers for the ensuing year they have acted n a thoroughly manly way and shown that they deserve the confidence of their class and the respect of the University...