Word: cone
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sargent has just introduced into the rowing tank a new apparatus for measuring the different strokes. A tin cone is weighted to float just below the surface, and from the cone a string runs to the measuring machine. It is fastened to a bar of metal, at the other end of which there is a pencil. The pencil is constantly leaving a a mark on a sheet of paper moved by clock work. At every stroke the rush of water against the cone causes the pencil to make a sharp deflection in the course it is tracing on the paper...
...verse is by Helen Gray Cone and Mrs. Graham R. Thomson. The serials by Mr. Lowell, Frank Stockton and Miss Fanny Murfree make systematic progress and at the end of the number are the usual book reviews and comments, together with the "Contributor's Club...
...literary character, are by Louise Imogene Guivey and Margaret Christine Whiting on Slr Walter Raleigh and Mrs. Pepys. "Carriage Horses and Cobs' seems a curious companion for Birge Harrison's "New Departure in Parisian Art," and poems by Dr. Holmes, T. W. Parsons, R. W. Gilder and Helen Gray Cone. One other article deserves especial mention, that on Cardinal Newman. The present installments of the serials do not indicate any disposition to set the world on fire...
Woman receives a fair share of attention. Amelia Gere Mason's "Women of the French Salons" discusses those of the eighteenth century, and Helen Gray Cone discusses "Woman in American Literature...