Word: channels
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...balloon. Animals only were sent up, but when it was found to be safe men attempted an ascension. In the same year hydrogen was used as a lifting power. The next year a balloon was first used for scientific purposes, and about the same time one crossed the English channel from England to France. From then on, numberless ascents have been made, and great heights reached...
...lifting power of the atmosphere and the heating power of gas were discovered that man first rose in the air. Only two years after the discovery of the balloon, Dr. Jeffries of Boston made an ascent for a scientific study of the atmosphere, and soon after crossed the English Channel in his balloon. As was found out after these experiments, the upper strata of the air at a distance of more than five or six miles from the earth, were both too cold and too rarefled for human beings. Mechanical contrivances for recording temperature and pressure were therefore devised...
...flow of the Charles River was stopped yesterday by the closing of the dam that has been under construction for several months near the Craigie Bridge. The cutting off of the river channel is to allow the construction of the main section of the permanent dam and roadway. It will be fully a year from now before the completion of the entire work can be observed, for after the dam is finished a roadway 100 feet wide is to be built along its top, serving as a permanent substitute for the old Craigie Bridge. The shutting off of the water...
...excessive exuberance of sprits has manifested itself at the baseball games this year which, in its effort to escape, has found an objectionable channel of outlet. It is well, so far as possible, to eliminate the "fan" element in the grandstands, and at least to keep it entirely in the admission bleachers, the sentiments of which no one couples with the University. The presence of unescorted ladies at the games up to this escorted ladies at the games up to this time is most complimentary and has shown that they have felt sure of a courteous reception. To alter this...
...University crew had its first time trial over the four-mile course late this afternoon, covering the distance in 22 minutes and 46 seconds. There was a slightly favoring tide; but Blagden steered a poor course, losing the force of the tide by not staying near enough to the channel. At about 7.15 o'clock the men went in the launch downstream as far as the New London railroad bridge. The crew got away with a good start and rowed about 32 strokes per minute for the first half-mile, which was covered in good time. Then the stroke...