Word: air
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...stimulus of intercollegiate competition in basketball eliminated there will naturally be less interest in that sport. A transfer of support to hockey may reasonably be expected to take place. As a sport hockey is undoubtedly superior to basketball, and the fact that it is played in the open air makes it more valuable as a means of exercise...
...shaped jaw, or of misplaced teeth, and exactly what has happened to a fractured jaw. In a perfectly equipped dental laboratory or operating room, such as the new Dental Building contains, one may see in use a great variety of apparatus in which electrical current, compressed air, gas, and water are all ingeniously applied to producing a great variety of delicate and exquisite effects. The work to be done is all exact, and much of it is minute. The whole Dental Building illustrates the thorough application of the new learning which medical science has developed under the term asepticism. Since...
...Miller of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company will speak on "What Stops a Train?" in Pierce 110 this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be given under the auspices of the Engineering Society and will be open t all members of the University. Light refreshments will be served after the lecture...
...arranged for a series of lectures to be given this winter by prominent scientific men in the University. Professor I. N. Hollis h.'99 will speak on "Movements of Solids Through Liquids"; Professor A. L. Rotch h.'91 will deliver at least one lecture on "Physics of the Air," and Professor R. W. Willson '73 has consented to talk on aeronautical problems of navigation in connection with astronomy...
After demonstrating the principles of soaring, by blackboard diagrams, Mr. Merrill went on to explain the present weakness of the aeroplane, namely, the engine. It is the inefficiency of the motive power which has and still does limit the range and speed of the heavier-than-air machine. It is on the engine that French scientists are now putting their greatest efforts. To get the maximum horse-power with a minimum weight is the present problem of aeronautics. If the engine ceases to supply power the aeroplane has to descend and if this happens over a country devoid of suitable...