Word: plainer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...flash of the Crooke's tube. This Professor Trowbridge has settled by means of the new battery. Instead of the 20,000 volts which were before considered necessary, he has found that 100,000 are needed to produce the flash, and that with increasing voltage the picture becomes steadily plainer. This current, acting through one ten-millionth of a second, develops one million horse power...
...concerned now. As I understand it, I hold it in the highest respect; but I frankly confess that, viewing the utterances of 1823 in the light of 1896, I can see nothing in them which makes them in any respect applicable to the present case. Nothing is plainer in President Monroe's famous message of 1823 than that he referred solely to attempts on the part of the allied powers of Europe "to extend their system" to this hemisphere. he says: "It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent...