Word: flue
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...CHINESE TOBACCO is threatening U.S. overseas markets. Communists have hiked production almost 200% since prewar days, are currently exporting 100 million Ibs. annually of flue-cured leaf, more than 20% of U.S. total...
...deadline for payments on November term bills. The bills may be paid at the Bursar's office or at the Harvard Trust Company. Those who have not received a bill should obtain one from the Bursar's office as soon as possible in order to avoid incurring the $10 flue put on all payments made after the deadline...
...Stuffed Flues. Galileo Galilei was born in 1564, a vintage year of the Renaissance that saw the birth of Shakespeare and the death of Michelangelo. He was himself one of the last universal figures of the age. At 22, he produced a hydrostatic balance (a device for measuring the specific gravities of objects), went on to construct the first astronomically usable telescope and perfect the law of the motion of falling bodies. He was equally at ease pruning his Florentine vineyards or penning satiric verse. For years, Galileo grubbed away in underpaid mathematical teaching posts without losing his love...
...year-old Galileo tried to poke his telescope through the stuffed flue of the Ptolemaic-Aristotelian universe, and ran into trouble. In any other hands, the telescope might have been only a passing novelty. In Galileo's it pointed back to a neglected but explosive treatise called Revolution of the Celestial Orbs, written a half-century before by Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. On mathematical grounds, Copernicus had questioned the natural philosophy of Aristotle and the astronomy of Ptolemy which taught that the earth stood still in the center of the universe while the heavens revolved around it every 24 hours...
Carlough got his second goal with 20 minutes gone in the third period. Crimson goalie Pete Briggs made a dive for the ball, but it took a flue bounce and eluded him. Eight minutes later Carlough tallied again for the last score...