Word: chains
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Some New York graduates of Yale have presented Capt. Peters with a watch chain with an elaborate cameo fob as a testimonial of his efforts this fall...
...Lawton will lecture on the laws governing the intersection of curves in one plane. The subjects for general discussion are the following. 1. Series for determining the ratio 3,141392. 2. To circumscribe about a given quadrilateral the ellipse of a minimum. 3. A uniform chain hangs with its lower end just touching a horizontal, inelastic table. The chain is let fall. Prove that, at any instant, the pressure on the table is three times the weight of the coil already on the table...
...declare themselves in favor of a more extensive study of Physiology. But is not this tinged with a little of the spirit of the assassin? Is there not a concealed purpose to be able to find out an opponent's physiological weakness? As an offset let us adopt chain-armor. This is a suggestion to the conference committee...
...popular from the start. The trade offered Major Wingfield a royalty of $1.25 a set on his invention, which would have yielded him by this time over $1,000,000. He declined the offer, however, and has never realized anything from the game except a gold watch and chain presented to him by public subscription. - News...
...very little carelessness on the part of one man may bring terrible results upon a score of his fellow undergraduates. A student rooming in one of the large dormitories in the yard is absolutely at the mercy of the men around him. As the weakest link in a chain must be taken as the measure of its strength, so must the safety of a hundred students be computed on the basis of the habits of the most heedless in their number. A carelessly built fire; a thoughtless oversight of an open gas jet; either cause may send the CRIMSON into...