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...waited until the ball reached the line instead of trying to break through and spoil the play before it had started. In advancing the ball the backs followed their interference fairly well, but they did not turn in soon enough, and in running back or making a big arc were frequently tackled with no gain. The team lacked snap and fight, and fumbled frequently. Moreover, the men seemed to think that when the ball had been carried to the opponents' three yard line, their work was done...
...investigated with the naked eye or with only a small glass, photographic enlargements have been made of portions of the Bonn Durch-musterung charts. A region three degrees square, surrounding each variable, has been three times enlarged, giving a map on the standard scale of one minute of arc to the millimetre. On these enlargements the designations of the stars in sequence have been marked. Copies will be furnished to observers at cost, or free of expense to persons of experience who are ready to co-operate in the work. Complete charts with the proper magnitudes for the stars represented...
...feet, thus making the departure from the straight-away very gradual. In the second, the radius is shortened to one hundred and ninety-one feet, making the curve a trifle greater. In the third, the radius is again shortened to one hundred and twenty-seven feet, and this arc joins the final curve, the radius of which is ninety-five and one-half feet. The main curve then runs around the end without change of radius and joins the straight-away. The question why these easement curves are introduced only on approaching the ends, and not on leaving them...
...writing was the result of his unhealthy nature and of the suffering of his childhood and youth. He has the imagination of the heart; he penetrates the soul. For this reason he has a sympathetic appreciation of the Middle Ages and is the best historian of Jeanne d'Arc. But after 1843 Michelet lost the equilibrium he had preserved between imagination and erudition; and history came to mean for him mere pamphlet writing...
Symphony in C major (The Bear) op. 66, Haydn; Aria, "Jeanne d'Arc," Tschaikowski; Andante and Scherzo from Symphony in F major, op. 9, Goetz; Aria from "Rienzi," Wagner; Italian Caprice op. 45, Tschaikowski...