Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...FORBES.The Zoological club will meet at the Museum, on Tuesday evening, October 22, (not Monday evening as previously advertised). Doors open from 7.15 to 7.30. Paper by Mr. G. H. Parker: Compound Eye of Lobster...
...instruments which will be used during the eclipse is for the purpose of determining whether it is probable that some of the demands which are classified here as simple, are not really compound, and are separated in the intense heat of the sun. It has been suggested that iron may be a compound of calcium and oxygen, and that these elements may be separated in the sun. So this apparatus will take the light of the very edge of the sun just as the eclipse becomes total, then of the bottom part of the corona, and then of the outer...
...regret to announce that Assistant Professor Cohn met with a serious and painful accident last Saturday. In attempting to stop a runaway horse, he received a compound fracture of the jaw, which will necessitate his absence from his college work for some time. Professor Bocher and Mr. Sumichrast will take charge of his classes. There will be no recitations in French 11 this week...
...mentioned natural history man chanced one day to hear of a wonderful stimulant that Moses had discovered. As he was greatly interested in athletics he proceeded to investigate the matter. After much research he ascertained the ingredients of the mixture and one day last week resolved to try the compound. The nature of the stimulant is yet a dead secret. It is not even known whether it must be applied internally or externally. Suffice it to say that it produced a marvellous effect and the fastest quarter over run on the fair ground track was the result. Little has been...
...schools, which occupy time which could better be devoted to the study of other subjects; or at least, to a greater degree of practice in simple operations. Who of us has not seen, in the hands of children of 11, 12 and 13 years of age, examples in "compound and complex fractions" which were more difficult than any operation which any bank cashier in the city of Boston has occasion to perform, in the course of his business, from January to December? The most jagged fractions, such as would hardly ever be found in actual business operations...