Word: current
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...revolution in the electrical world. The device which Mr. Hogan has been at work on for some time and which he says has now been demonstrated to be a success, consists in a little apparatus which will reduce the voltage of an electric wire without interfering with the current. Just what is the mechanism by which this result is accomplished can not be announced for the present. It is claimed that it will entirely supplant the motor dynamos which are used in telegraph and telephone companies. The Edison machine now in use costs $100 and Mr. Hogan says that...
...current number of the Advocate, appearing with a somewhat surprising but none the less commendable promptness, completes the 58th volume of the paper's existence...
...cooperation of the University, intends to publish a series of portraits which will have peculiar interest to all students of American history and American painting, since many valuable pictures will now be produced for the first time. The series begins with the portrait of Thomas Hollis in the current number, which will be followed in June by Savage's portrait of Washington...
...children. Yet a few exceedingly curious beliefs, survive among us at the present time, notably the superstition still found in some parts of New England, that rats can be got rid of by writing them a letter and leaving it where they can see it. The same belief was current among the Romans...
...mean that individual subscriptions, even in considerable quantities, are wanting, but that a large majority of the students display an unfortunate indifference to, or ignorance of, the financial needs of the Union. The Union can not hope to receive enough from its insignificant tuition fees to cover even current expenses; at present it is still further hampered by the fact that the payment for its new quarters in the old City Hall is not made up by the subscriptions collected to that end. The Union does not complain of this state of affairs, but it would have, we think, some...