Word: workingment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Besides its strictly theoretical importance, this science has a very practical side. Of late Berthollot has been working for the French government in applying the principles of the science to the study of explosives. Much valuable knowledge has thus been obtained about smokeless powder, dynamite, etc. Also at the government...
"La Dame a la Clef" is far less faulty than previous work by its author, who succeeds very well in working up a trifling incident. Perhaps, however, the author was not aware that his friend M. Lebon was telling him, in a slightly altered form, a familiar story in which...
A good many men are working at track athletics at present, but the prospects for a strong team this year are not very encouraging. The freshman games were held yesterday and some good work was done, but no records were broken, and no very promising material appeared. The sophomore games...
At first the aim of the Annex was to give to young women intending to become teachers the best possible preparation. But after a while many came who wished to study without any practical object. The special students, although they are not compelled to take the examinations, often do so...
In 1872 Mr. Smith of the British Museum found a part of the great epic, in which the deluge is but an episode. Miss Wolfe of New York gave money for an expedition in 1884, and Dr. Peters of Philadelphia is now working near Babylon where he is excavating a...