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...obtain the desired effect with a Crooke's tube. The first attempt, made a few minutes before, was partly successful. The ordinary sixty-volt alternating current used for lighting the building was sent through the primary of an ordinary coil. The resistance of the primary of this coil is one-tenth of an ohm, and of the secondary 6000 ohms. The current through the primary was not stronger than 15 ampheres. The current from the secondary of the first coil was sent through the primary of 25 turns of a Tesla induction coil, the secondary of which has 500 turns...
These points will be reckoned as follows: The number of kilos lifted with the back and legs straight, and the number of kilos lifted with the legs bent, added to the strength of the grip in the right and left hands, expiratory power as tested by the manometer, and one-tenth of the weight in kilos multiplied by the number of times that the person can raise his weight by dipping between the parallel bars and pulling his weight up to his chin on the rings. Where the strength test falls below the desired standard the capacity of lungs will...
...Japan was ready to carry on the war without delay. Her men were well drilled and familiar with European and American methods. The Chinese, however, are not soldiers, but traders and merchants. The army is without system and is full of corruption. Japan, with a population one-tenth that of China, has an available army nearly as large. Her navy is much smaller and consists entirely of cruisers...
...Nine-tenths of the annual income shall be used, the remaining one-tenth to be added yearly to the principal...
...growth of the University of Michigan has been so great that the needs of the university have outgrown all means of meeting them so that the Regents of the state have asked the legislature to increase the special tax for university purposes from one-twentieth to one-tenth of a mill