Word: exhaustive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Every retailer renews his holiday stock from day to day until a week before Christmas, and then lets it run out. Even the publishers exhaust their stock early in December, and reprint in January...
Every retailer renews his holiday stock from day to day until a week before Christmas, and then lets it run out. Even the publishers exhaust their stock early in December, and reprint in January...
...results of Professor Trowbridge's most recent experiments with his powerful new battery are of great scientific interest. He has found that if you inclose a straight wire in a glass tube and exhaust the air within, and then send a discharge of high electromotive force through the wire, the whole space of the tube will be brilliantly luminous. It looks as if the effect of the x-rays were produced from every point of the wire although it was formerly supposed that a discharge was necessary to produce this effect. The new ray, however, could probably not be used...
...building is ventilated by fans that force in air of a constant temperature, and exhaust the old. The building is lighted throughout by electricity, and power is furnished in the laboratories for use in any kind of electro-chemical work...
Third class. - When the first impression is vivid but the power of recalling it is weak. The emotional, highly excitable belong to this class. They exhaust all their strength in acquiring the first impression...