Word: amount
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...shown that in all of the intervals called dissonant, some of the partial tones of one note must fall near enough to some of those of the other to produce this disagreeable interferference; while in all those called consonant the roughness from this source is insignificant in amount and the beauty of the tones involved can produce its full effect upon the ear. But later criticism has demanded a positive reason for the beauty of a concord and questions whether the character of an Interval depends to the extent asserted by Helmholtz upon the timbre of the notes comprising...
...Alpha Delta Phi house at Cornell was damaged Saturday last to the amount...
Although the contents of the will of the late Dr. Alvan Talcott have not yet been publicly announced, nevertheless most of the specifications are known to interested parties. The amount of the estate is estimated at about eighty-five thousand dollars, of which twenty-five thousand goes to Yale for an endowment of a Greek professorship, the will providing for the immediate payment of that fund. He also leaves his entire medical library, which is very large and valuable, to the Yale Medical School...
...amount of exhibits in the museum has been greatly increased. This is due in a very large degree to the interest that the friends of the museum take in its welfare. Mr. Charles P. Bowditch, who traveled recently in Mezico, has obtained a collection there which has great value in trowing light on Mexican archaeology. Another valuable Mexican collection has been formed from numerous objects of interest which Mrs. Warren purchased during her travels in Mexico. Through the generosity of Mr. Stephen Salisbury the museum will be able to represent the front of an ancient palace at Labua. Casts...
Probably few men in college know of the great amount of work that is going on at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The collections in the museum are very valuable, and a great deal of original investigation is being carried on in Mexico and Central America under the charge of Professor F. W. Putnam, the curator of the museum. These investigations are proving very successful and the results obtained will be of the utmost value for ethnological study...