Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...every part bears a certain relation to every other part. One-half the diameter of the column is taken as the unit of measurement and to this every thing is referred. It is not advisable to learn by heart all these relations, but the architect should be so familiar with their various appearances, that he can tell at a glance to what order any work belongs. In all the orders the column is straight for one third of its height, and the rest of the way follows some definite curve. The smallest diameter must always be five-sixths...
...periods in its history. Style changes with every revolution in the political position of nations, in fact it is the expression of this constant development and evolution and has varied with every century in the history of mankind. The different styles of architecture with which we are now familiar have received their impulse and inspiration from the characteristics and peculiarities of the nations which were dominant at the several times of their origin. We have had the Roman, Gothic and Medixval styles and then out of the reformation and regeneration of ideas which came in the sixteenth century grew...
...Bell then found that by means of a small diaphragm he could transmit the sound waves made by the voice to a diaphragm at the other end of the line. He now gave all his attention to perfecting this diaphragm transmitter and in 1877 brought it to the familiar form in which it has remained ever since. When the magneto telephone had been perfected, a new difficulty arose as to how the man at one end of the line was to call the man at the other. At first the simple push button was used, but this frequently failed...
...Author of 'America'," gives an account of the Harvard life of sixty-five years ago, with its many amusing differences from that of today; and there can be no doubt that such an account is more interesting to men now in college than to those who were familiar with the scenes it describes...
...author does not confine his remarks to the presentation of the "Phormio," which has been planned for next spring, but gives much valuable informotion about the New Comedy in general, to which the plays of Terence belong. Outside of the classical department, there are probably few who are familiar with the characteristics of Latin comedy, and even fewer who know anything whatever of the peculiarities of the verse employed in it. To the large majority, therefore, Professor Greenough's article will give new information which is absolutely essential to the intelligent appreciation of the play on the nineteenth of April...