Word: downes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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I. The President's message is bad as to the substance of the policy laid down for this particular case.- (a) War between England and the United States would be an immeasurable calamity: Boston Herald, Dec. 19, 1895; Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, I, p. 55.-
Cathode means the way down or the way out as distinguished from the annode, the way in. Taking an ordinary Leclanche cell, such as is used in connection with house bells, Professor Trowbridge showed how the carbon pole would be the annode and the zinc pole the cathode. It would...
Down from Misti on the other side from Arequipa are several other stations, Mount Blanc (15,700 feet elevation), Hursos (13,400), Cazro (11,100), and Santa Ana (3,400). This forms a complete chain of stations, the most perfect in the world, reaching from Mollendo on the sea coast...
Yesterday afternoon the number of candidates for the 'varsity baseball nine was cut down to about thirty-seven men. This number, however, does not include the battery candidates. The two squads into which the candidates have heretofore been divided, have been made into one. This squad from now on, will...
The second lecture of Gen. Walker's course on bimetallism attracted a large audience last night and was very interesting and instructive. Gen. Walker continued in this lecture the history of changes in the precious metals from the time of Augustus down to the middle of the 16th century.