Word: cement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale bicycle squad in training numbers twenty-five men. On May 1 it will begin using the cement track at Bridgeport for the rest of the season...
...work of the crew during the past week has consisted of light exercises in the Carey Building, followed by short runs and handball. The crew has only been able to row in the tank once, on Wednesday. The increased weight of water in the tank coming upon the cement foundation instead of upon the zinc floors, started a leak. Men were set to work immediately, putting in a firm foundation in place of the sand and brick under the tank floor, and when new cement has been laid over this the tank will be perfectly strong and water tight...
...noon the contact of the lava bed on the sandstone near Greenfield will be seen; here the lower surface of the lava is seen in cross section to be broken up into coarse fragments, now united by a sandy cement which is continuous with the sandstone below, and passes into a volcanic cement above, showing "where the slaggy surface of the flow was under rolled on a muddy bottom and the mud was forced up into the fissures," meeting in the cracks the still liquid lava from above...
...aluminum. Unless the aluminum window is very small and extremely thin the occluded air in the aluminum cannot be driven off in the process of exhaustion. When the window is made of very thin aluminum it cannot be larger than a ten cent piece; and there is no cement which is serviceable for any length of time. Glass is the only practical substance for Crookes tubes. The great difficulty at present in the application of the cathode photography to surgery lies in the expense of the method. In order to take a photograph of the hand to detect a bullet...
...undetermined, but the chances are that it will be placed in the rear of the new gymnasium. The building will be used principally for a base ball cage, and will be about 200 feet square, with a dirt floor. The cage will be surrounded by a cement running track, which will also be used for bicycle practice...