Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...glass of the two telescopes is of the finest French make. The mirror is four inches thick, for any plate would probably change its shape from expansion or flexure. The telescopic tube is jointed so as to be air-tight throughout and at the eye-piece. Its material is steel plate one thirty-second inch thick. The temperature of the room does not effect its interior and no fogging of the object glass has occurred during cold nights...
...made by lifting the upper one a little by a mechanical arrangement. The powerful current, in overcoming the resistance offered by the air, heats the carbon tips to a white heat. In the incandescent lamp the resistance is offered by a filament of carbon encased in an air-tight glass-bulb. The current required to drive an are light will drive twenty-four 16-candle incandescent lamps...
...Miss Lizzie Nolan looked lovely in a hand painted pink silk corsage, laced tight with pink silk cord. The skirts were painted in the same manner and looked really charming."- Boston Globe...
...figure six feet high and weighing 150 pounds rests with one end on a smooth horizontal plane and the other against a smooth vertical wall with which it makes an angle of 30 degrees. What is its tension? That is to say, how tight is it? What is its centre of gravity...
...take sides in the old dear dispute. Certainly it is not necessary for us to praise in full what we doubt was a very lukewarm condition of religious zeal; but we may well rejoice in the occurrence as a breaking open of what had been a very hard and tight idea of religious experience. It was a protest in behalf of the variety and spontaneity of spiritual life. It was a claiming of its rights for the soul of man. So it was in the region of experience, a true enlargement of the deep life of the college...