Word: america
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hall's American Navigation, pp. 64-91; No. Amer. Rev., May, 1881, pp. 477, 480-1.- (2) Because they would stimulate American industry in general-not benefit a favored few: Hall's "Navigation" and "Iron Steamships," entire.- (3) Because they are in harmony with the principle of "ruling America first for Americans, and for the rest of mankind afterwards" Penn. Monthly, March, 1880.- (4) Because they are a necessity in order to the establishment of an American merchant marine: "American Shipping Interests," pp. 53-4, and appendix...
...method has been extended so as to include the yellow and red rays, known as the all-day exposure method. Here the lecturer showed a photograph taken by Mr. Burbank, '89, of two sodium lines. It is the first one of the kind that has ever been produced. America has done more in the last fifty years to bring photography to perfection than any other country, although much has been accomplished by recent scientific investigation in England and France. The old spectra of stars were mere dots, but now Professor Pickering has been able to take photographic spectra of them...
...circulars on "Russia and America" are again being circulated by the unknown lady...
...beginners in political economy, and parts of it apply to questions of the day on finance and kindred topics. Professor James has edited J. E. Mande's "The Foundations of Ethics." Mr. Justin Winsor has written the fifth volume of his "Narrative and Critical History of America," a volume of 649 pages, besides doing a vast amount of compiling in connection with his official duties as librarian of the University. Professor Child has written Part IV. of the "English and Scottish Popular Ballads." Professor Charles Eliot Norton has edited, for the Macmillans of London, the "Reminiscences of Thomas Carlyle...
Prof. Norton will repeat his lecture on "The Conditions of Thought in America," to-night in Chickering Hall, Boston...