Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...incredulous of opinions other than our own, but should try to realize that there is some other view of looking at a matter besides the one which we are at present using. In explaining Flatland, there is a bit too much attention to detail. The style, however, is clear and forcible. The book as a whole is entertaining, and at times funny, through its very unreasonableness...
...night. He kneels at his inamorata's shrine when first he wakes; and at the solemn hours of mid-night he flats a few sweet notes as the last strain of his farewell serenade before he goes to bed, or in the early morning he chirps out his cheerful clear-toned song to tell his fellow birds that he is up. He must be deaf; for surely he cannot hear the beloved yodel say-"not this eve," each time he passionately offers himself. He continues unceasingly to offer himself, and all around him, living sacrifices on the altar...
...hand, could then be refunded to those who have so generously given their assistance. This would place all members on the same footing. By this means the society would have a surplus of ready money at the end of the year which would enable them to start next year clear of debts...
...ideas, new wants, new interests. An elastic constitution meets revolution half way. But when the people live under a constitution contained in an organic written law, the slightest change will produce a visible strain, because every wheel, every bolt, and every connection of a highly elaborate mechanism is in clear light before their eyes...
...most noted firms in England, France and Germany, without finding one which was willing to undertake the contract of making the glass disks from which the objectives must be made. At last, in 1880, a contract was made with Feil of Paris, for an objective of 36 inches clear aperture. For four years he has worked without success, every disk breaking on account of the heat which is necessary in the last stage of the making. Finally, last month he telegraphed that he had actually molded a glass without its being broken; and so at last the disk...