Word: kite
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...course of experiments is being conducted at the Jefferson Physical Laboratory in connection with the signal service. A large kite has been used to determine the comparative state of electricity in the lower statum of atmosphere, and among the clouds...
Deniel Pratt will lecture on "Human AEstheticism" this evening, at 581 Washington street. The general says he can knock Oscar "higher than a kite...
...plays have assumed some chronological shape, by which metrical tests have been consistently applied, by which the growth of style can be traced, by which we arrive at some knowledge of the poet's mind and art, - these things are due in large part to the "very erratic kite." But the Advocate has happily reduced the question to a mathematical formula, - the Alpha and Omega from which there is no appeal : Mr. Wright = Dowden + Furnivall + ???. This is very pretty, and it doubtless satisfies the ingenious inventors; but more exact Shaksperian scholars will not accept it as proof of the "lunacy...
...feared that the remarks of our esteemed cotemporary, in regard to a Shakspere Club, were not so well considered as that journal's editorial articles usually are. Possibly a society that numbers among its members Professors Furnivall and Dowden and our own Professor Child may be "a very erratic kite," but it is pardonable. perhaps, to think otherwise. It might be well for the Advocate to leave denunciation of that society in the hands of Mr. Swinburne, whose foulmouthed Billingsgate particularly fits him for the task. But it is not necessary that we should undertake its defence. The inoffensive item...