Word: clears
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...upon the Andes at a place in about 16 degrees south latitude. In this region it is very dry, there being an annual rainfall of but about four inches. The rain all falls between January and March and during nearly all the rest of the year the sky is clear and unobscured...
...however, came a pension of three hundred pounds from the government and it is from the subsequent brighter days of leisure and competence, when Johnson was able to go about the world of London and indulge his passion for talk, that we know him best. Boswell is the clear medium through which succeeding generations behold Johnson in London, at the club, in the Hebrides, with his poor folk, as well as with the many pretty and clever women whom Johnson had added to the list of his acquaintance. But one of the less known anecdotes of Johnson makes clear what...
...students, we think, has not been as great as it should have been. The reputation of Harvard in debate is a splendid one. She can show an absolutely unbroken record of victories, and every student in the University should feel a personal interest in keeping this record as clear...
...very sensitive Cramer dry-plate about four inches long and 1.5 inches wide, was put, film side up, into a wooden box, having a close-fitting sliding wooden cover. Upon the sensitive plate were laid two clear glass slips, less than one sixteenth of an inch thick. A space was left between them about four inches long and one half an inch deep. Across the glass slips to hold them in place was put a narrow bar of pine wood five-sixteenths of an inch thick. The wooden cover, three-sixteenths of an inch thick, was then pushed into place...
...seminars which have grown out of the system and which they have frowned upon, "abet students in the neglect of regular work" by maintaining the present system? A consideration of these questions forces the conclusion that the present system of mid-year examinations is far from satisfactory. It seems clear that something ought to be done. Either they ought to be abolished altogether, or else some plan should be devised by which they would not interrupt the year's work for three weeks nor give an opportunity for men to cram down the requirements of over three month's work...