Word: feet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...astronomical observatory at Bates College will be connected by telegraph with the observatories at Harvard, Washington, Mt. Hamilton, Cal., and Greenwich, England. The telescope will be fifteen feet long with a twelve-inch aperture, and will be placed in a building eighty feet long on the top of Mt. David which is 400 feet high...
Notwithstanding the fact that there was an inch of snow on the ice, many men enjoyed the skating on Fresh Pond yesterday afternoon. There was a narrow escape from drowning, a man and a girl breaking through the ice about fifty feet from the shore but two '89 men wrenched some boards from a neighboring fence and with the assistance of the crowd succeeded in landing the unfortunate pair. In all justice to the rescuers it is fair to state that one of them occupies a high position on them CRIMSON board of editors...
...boundary of the great ice sheet, which once covered the northern half of this continent, by means of the great heaps of sand and gravel called terminal moraines, pited up by the ice where its progress was stopped. These heaps are sometimes very large, one in Pennsylvania is 150 feet high and 12 miles long, Nantucket and Martha's Vinevard are also terminal moraines. The southern limit, from New Jersey to the Pacific, of this ice-sheet was shown by maps; and, curiously enough, this line also bounds the great wheat fields of the country, the area once covered with...
...number of views of glacial scratches and the pebbles which made them were next shown, while the cause of their formation was being explained. Then pictures of glacial deposits some 95 feet thick were presented. Cedar logs of large size are often buried in these and the lecturer said that while camping in Alaska his only fuel was preglacial woods many thousands of years...
...often reaching 100 inches, and it often rains there 2 5 days in the year. This weather is most favorable to the formation of glaciers, and the rest of the lecture was devoted to one of the most noticeable-the great Muirglacier. This is one mile across and 408 feet high where it reaches the sea, while the water is there 600 feet deep. Great pieces of ice continually break off with a loud noise, and these icebergs cover the surrounding inlets. The motion of this mass was from 65 to 72 feet per day in places, and the whole...