Word: cents
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...endeavor to make Crookes tubes largely of 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...
LOST.- Small, dark purse with 10 dollar bill, a nickel, and silver ten cent piece with monogram on one side. Lost between Cambridge Safe Deposit and Hazen's store. Finder please leave at Leavitt and Peirce...
...asked, "would the danger of inflation be removed?" At any time the people desired they could demand a new issue of legal tender, or resort to some form of wild-cat banking, or, what is more probable, they would resort to some form of silver inflation. Twenty-five per cent, of the currency would be called into the treasury and burned, and the clamor for silver will be increased to that extent. Since the silver dollar actually possesses some intrinsic value, it furnishes a much more insidious temptation to inflation than do the legal tender. This fact it proved conclusively...
...results of overtraining have been much exaggerated. The percentage of athletes injured in this way is small. Out of over 4000 men examined who were members of various Harvard teams not over one per cent were affected with the slightest cardiac trouble. It is in those events in which there are long strains and few intervals of rest that the heart is most strained, such as tugs-of war; but in football the heart has intervals of rest and the strain is not great...
...increase of the navy is unnecessary: Nation, LXII, 47.- (a) We have no commerce to protect.- (1) More than 86 per cent. of our own carrying trade done by foreign ships: Statistical abstract of the U. S., 1894, p. 282.- (b) No colonies to protect-(c) We make no attempts at territorial aggrandizement likely to result in war.- (d) Invasion by foreign enemy is practically impossible: Nation LVI, 190-91.- (e) General reasons for existence of large European navies do not apply to us: Nation LXII, 47.- (1) We have no colonial interests conflicting with those of other American...