Word: width
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...committee recommends the construction of a dam, one hundred and thirty feet in width, to serve also as a bridge. Provision is made for a large lock and proper sluicing appliances. The estimated cost of such a structure is $1,250,000 or substantially the same as the cost of a bridge, which must, if the dam is not constructed, be built at this point...
...main feature of the new building will be "Harvard Hall," a large hall to be used for dining and general club purposes; its dimensions will be 100 feet in length by about 40 feet in width and about three stories high. This large hall is patterned somewhat after the large Living Room of the Union, but has a stone floor, and stone walls above an oak wainscot...
...Centre Harbor, which will be the Post Office address. It is especially well adapted for topographic work of any kind and for hydrographic survey. The area is about 1 1-2 miles of lake front on the farm. The lake itself, about eight miles in length by two in width, is situated in a spur of the White Mountains, and contains a large number of islands...
...shell designed for the University crew by Clinton H. Crane, and now being built by Davy, is nearing completion. The boat is one foot longer than that lately built for the Freshmen, and three feet longer than the standard length, though the width has not been changed. Its dimensions are: Length, 64 feet 1-2 inch; beam, 23 inches; depth amidships, 9 1-2 inches; at bow, 5 inches; at stern, 4 inches. It is slightly fuller than the old model, with more flooring. The increase in fulness is at the bilge with an inch more camber in the stern...
...eclipse of the sun this morning will be partial over Cambridge shortly after nine o'clock. The path of total eclipse, which is but fifty-four miles in width, extends from Mexico across the United States to Norfolk, Va., and ends at Thebes, Egypt. The shadow will begin over Mexico soon after eight o'clock, and traveling at an average rate of twenty-seven hundred miles an hour will reach Egypt about half-past eleven...