Word: flows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...began at the rate of twenty strokes to the minute, but they soon ran up to twenty-nine; this was found to bring a very heavy pressure upon the bow, as the flow of the circuitous current necessarily is much slower there than at the stern. To rectify this the blades of the bow oars will require larger bores. The outriggers were also defective in many respects, particularly those of 1, 5, 7, and 8, which were too high. It will probably be some time before everything is in perfect working order as chances for improvements cannot fail...
...water in the tank stood about twenty-eight inches high, and seemed to flow with perfect freedom around the central partitions. As a whole the tank promises to be entirely successful and it is earnestly hoped that the crews will derive all the advantages from it which all the men in college expect them...
...divided into halves by a plank or brick partition eighteen inches high, and above which the boat will float. In the centre of each half, but within the reach of the oars, will be another partition, extending only part way to the ends, which will cause the current to flow in the form of an ellipse. The boat will float so that it may be possible to observe whether or not the men are rowing a stroke which lifts or sinks the boat. It will require two or three small stoves, which will be kept going continually, to keep...
...Deutscher Verein on Monday evening at Young's Hotel was a great success. The eighteen members present enjoyed an excellent meal served in Berlin scyle (except for the colored waiters), and were treated in the intervals between the courses and after desert by a rarefeast of reason and flow of soul. Under the eloquent presidency of Mr. Winkler, the following toasts were made and responded to: Conference Francaise and die Schlacht bei Sedan, Mr. Villard; Der Massigkeitsvereinler and seine Stellung zur deutschen Kultur, Mr. Hoffmanu; Die deutsche Gemuthlichkeit, das funfte Temperament, Mr. Bailey; Die deutsche Wurst, ein anatomisches Studium...
...existed, however, among the roving tribes of Arabia, a lyric poetry of great excellence. War, love and hunting furnished the theme but there was no study of nature for its own sake. Sconery was introduced only as an appendage to human action. The elegance of diction and the happy flow of language showed the work of many generations of poets. There was, however, no unity of conception, and the poems were merely a string of aneedotes without beginning or end. The longer poems were composed in forms regulated by strict rules of composition...