Word: effect
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Bland Bill of 1878. In so far, the step was a wise one, but the unfortunate clause, providing for a minimum coinage of two millions per month was disastrous. The United States was thus made to act as receiver of the surplus foreign silver. Furthermore, this bill had the effect of confusing the whole question, creating the false impression that its evils were due to the principle of bimetallism...
...advanced by Dr. Rontgen himself, has been strongly supported by Poincare and provisionally accepted by other authorities. Yet Mr. Woodward has obtained excellent shadowgraphs from the radiations passing through the sides of the aluminum cone of his lamp. This supports another theory that has been offered, to the effect that Rontgen and cathode rays are independently generated in a vacuum tube, but that the former alone have the power of traversing the glass envelope. The fact that clearly defined radiographs of the hand were taken in five seconds show that Rontgen vibrations are greatly weakened in passing through the glass...
President Walker of the Institute of Technology delivered last evening, in the Fogg Art Museum, the fifth of his series of lectures on bimetallism. He began with the financial conditions of France in the middle of the century, and described the gold discoveries of that period and their after effect...
...occurred the gold discovery on the Pacific coast. In Australia three years later came the discovery of gold in enormous amounts. The effect produced by the output of these mines threatened to be overwhelming. The average production of gold in the world was increased five fold. It is estimated that within the next ten years the stock of gold in the hands of civilized man had literally doubled...
Arthur E. Gilman, Regent of Radcliffe College, has tendered his resignation to take effect at the end of the college year. His resignation has been accepted by the trustees. The reason of Mr. Gilman's resignation is that he wishes to be relieved of the great responsibility. He will probably still continue to be a member of the advisory council. Arrangements are being made for a public acknowledgement of the valued services rendered...