Word: tubes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...into place. The wooden box thus prepared was placed within a covered pasteboard box, the walls of which were about one thirty-second of an inch thick. The pasteboard box, with its contents, was placed one or two inches from the brightly fiorescent part of an ordinary spherical Crookes tube, and the action was maintained with this arrangement about two minutes, when the tube became so hot that the operation was stopped. The sensitive plate was then taken out and then developed with rodinol. Soon the part which had not been shielded by the glass slips began to show dark...
...Watson, a boat that will weigh not more than two hundred pounds, and will carry 1350 pounds. It will be of Spanish cedar and 63 feet long, with a beam of 22 inches and an extreme depth of 13.25 inches. All the braces will be of cold drawn steel tube. The rigging will be Kern's. Mr. Webb and Mr. Hartwell have just finished one boat for the Harvard crews at South Boston, and the Worcester boat will be known as the freshman boat, but the 'varsity crew will have the choice of boats...
Players on the following instruments are needed to fill vacancies in the orchestra, to wit.: Viola, bass viol, clarinet, French horn, trombone, bass tube and oboe. On most of the above, more than one player is needed. Any man who can play any of the above mentioned instruments is requested to send his name and address to the leader of the Pierian, who will take him on for trial. Address, A. P. Hebard, 14 Ware Hall...
...very ready to attack people. The rattlesnake is rather rare in New England, but each year a few are found in the Blue Hills and in the woods around Lynn. These creatures kill their prey by means of the venom which is secreted by means of a tube running to the base of their hollow teeth. These snakes cast off their skins several times each year, and every time that this occurs a rattle is added to their tails. These rattles are very fragile and easily broken off, and so the age cannot be told accurately by this means...