Word: contrastes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...clock and on Wednesday afternoons at three o'clock beginning Saturday, May 5, and closing June 23. The intention is not the give any technical instruction, and no previous knowledge of botany will be required of the students, but the principal object will be the explanation by contrast of the easiest means of distinguishing between the common varieties of plants and shrubs. An hour and a half to two hours will be devoted to each meeting and in addition once or twice a half day will be spent outside of the Arboretum at some favorable spot for the study...
...very important results. Heretofore the currents of electricity which have been employed in taking the photographs have been uncertain and fluctuating, so that the pictures obtained have frequently perplexed the surgeons who used them. The new method secures a steady current, and the pictures so taken are remarkable for contrast and definition. Under the old method of taking the photographs the muscles and tendons in a body were invisible and a strong light was required in order to see even the bones. With the new pictures very little light is required, and the muscles and tendons show distincly...
...Chester F. Stiles, of Cambridge, was placed on exhibition yesterday under the auspices of the Camera Club. The exhibit consists of seventy-five winter scenes taken last month among the northern peaks of the White Mountains, together with a few summer scenes of the same localities which serve as contrast. The pictures were taken under peculiarly trying circumstances...
...cannot meet our obligations to Porto Rico in any other way. We must enact duties which shall secure prosperity to the islanders. Our own customs laws will not accomplish this. They were devised to protect a manufacturing country that presents an almost complete contrast to Porto Rico, a purely agricultural island. In the parts of our country where the economic conditions approach those of Porto Rico, in the southern plantation states, the opposition to our tariff has been increasing for seventy-five years...
...marriages, purity, and sacrifices in temples. This organization is intelligently arranged and is written with a peculiar terseness, which is characteristic of Hebrew literature at that time. It is this same intense religious spirit which inspired the Talmud that preserved the purity and character of the Jewish people in contrast to the other nations at that time...