Word: inch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Miss C. W. Bruce, of New York, for a photographic telescope. The instrument will be made with a double lens, a new form not yet adopted by European astronomers, but considered by Professor Pickering far superior to single lens telescopes. It will have an aperture of twenty-four inches. Its focal length will be short, and consequently it will include a large area of the sky at once, and will also obtain images of very faint stars and nebulae. With this telescope, Professor Pickering expects to accomplish as much as seventeen other observatories working together according to a plan recently...
...work at the observatory this summer has consisted chiefly in photographing spectra of stars with an eleven inch refracting telescope, and in experimenting with several new instruments. Among others, a fifteen-inch reflecting telescope, made and presented by the late Henry Draper, is worthy of mention. It is now being used for photographing stars...
...association records were broken: quarter-mile run, mile walk, putting the shot, running broad jump, 220-yards dash, and the running high jump. In the tug-of-war contest, Williams, Brown, Dartmouth and Worcester were represented. Dartmouth won the event over Williams by one inch. The 100-yards dash was run in four beats, owing to the great number of entries. The final heat wins won by E. Williams of Dartmouth, in 10 4-5 seconds. J. W. Mills of Worcester second. The 220-yards dash was won by J. W. Mills of Worcester, in 23 2-5 seconds. This...
...broad jump was contested by G. R. White, Gr., G. W. Wheelwright, '90, E. B. Bodley, L. S., R. Jones, '90, and W. N. Duane, '92. White won with a jump of 19 feet, 9 inches; Bodley second, 19 feet, 5 inches. Wheelwright third, 19 feet, 1 inch...
Ninety-two: Throwing the hammer-Allen won with a throw of 75 feet, 1 inch. A. H. Green only entered this event to save a walkover...