Word: flows
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...large space in the northeast corner of the room is devoted to hydraulic machinery. A stand-pipe five feet in diameter and twenty-two feet in height extends above the level of the third floor. This is for experimenting with the flow of water through apertures of different sizes. Water will be pumped into the pipe from a cistern and will flow through an aperture, provided with nozzels of various sizes, into a tank. At the other end of the tank there will be a weir, and the flow of water over this can be measured. Then the water will...
...Boston Style" before the rebellion, and showed how this had become florid, almost turgid, because of its origin and developement from the firm belief of the Boston public in the literary superiority of Dr. Johnson, and because of its foundation in the Latin. It had an easy flow of eloquent words, but was absolutely lacking in conciseness and brevity. This style was the personification of that inflated diction which required translation by inverse ratio and which Dr. Johnson, Rufus Choate, and Carlyle to a certain extent affected. This style has now completely passed away and it is as the agent...
...Chicago, for the liberal religious thought of his native country. Since the Fair he has been lecturing and preaching in various places in this vicinity, and has always awakened the keenest interest in his hearers. he speaks excellent English so that his thoughts have as free and unhesitating a flow as those of men of our own nationality. Besides the interest which he has aroused by his speaking, he has attracted much attention by his book on the Oriental Christ. Very much new light is often thrown on religious matters by men whose lives have been surrounded by circumstances different...
Twenty or thirty naked and perspiring athletes lined up around the sides of the bath room, waiting their "turn" to stand for a moment under one of the streams of alternately hot and cold water, which flow from the four spigots. Perhaps ten or a dozen fellows have enjoyed this rare (?) treat when a sulphurous epithet from the head man in line announces to the patient fellows back of him that the hot-water has given out. Which horn of the dilemma will prove least dangerous is the question which now confronts the men who have not yet bathed; whether...
Once made poet laureate, Dryden's career as dramatist closes and he now turns to satire. In satire his genius lay, and in his productions of this kind we have fit members of the great body of English literature. His language was direct, emphatic, incisive, - there was an impetuous flow about his verses, every line struck a blow, every epithet had its significance, every simile its effect. Dryden's satire was both glorious and terrible...