Word: fork
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Start at Gymnasium, Garden street; l., Mason street; Brattle street to Mt. Auburn Bridge; right fork, Belmont street; l., Gore street; returning via Brattle, Mason, Garden streets to Gymnasium...
...handicap road race which comes off Friday. The course is an exceptionally fine one and very simple with no hills or bad turns, so fast time may be expected. The route is as follows: Start at Gymnasium, Garden street; l., Mason street; Brattle street to Mt. Auburn Bridge; right fork, Belmont street; l., Gore street; returning via Brattle, Mason, Garden streets to Gymnasium. All members of the University are invited, especially men intending to enter the road race. Start from Gymnasium...
...SALE. - Columbia Safety Bicycle. Last year's model - solid tires, - spring fork, - self-oiling chain. The machine is sound, and bar its finish, quite as good as new. Cost $135. Price $85. A very good bargain. Write or apply to 110 Irving St., Cambridge...
...voice and stringed instruments, what we call the pitch of the note is accompanied by a number of higher and fainter pitches. These are called overtones. The researches of Helmboltz have proved that this is not the exceptional but the common case and that comparatively few instruments (the tuning fork being one) give notes in which the pitch we principally notice is the only one apparent to closer scrutiny. According to his theory timbre, or the characteristic quality which differentiates notes of the same pitch from different sources depends upon whether or no they are composite; and if composite, upon...