Word: levels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...entrance to the gymnasium is on a level with the street, and on the ground floor is the swimming pool. This pool will contain 240,000 gallons of filtered water, and will be about twice the size of the tank in the Yale gymnasium. Around the edges of the building will be placed showers, needle baths, lockers and dressing room...
...large number of excellent stellar charts of which some very fine specimens have been received in Cambridge. The main station at Arequipa controls many meteorological posts in the neighboring country. The most important of these is situated on the summit of the volcano El Misti, 19200 feet above the level of the sea. At this high post there has recently been set up an automatic meteorograph which runs without care for months at a time. This records the direction and velocity of the wind, and registers continuously the barometric pressure, the temperature, and the humidity of the atmosphere...
...Barker's Bimetallism, p. 278). (2) The claim that falling prices are due to cheapening of production is unfounded. (a) It is imporbable that all articles would have fallen in price so uniformly in regard to gold. (b) Silver has mean-while remained at the same level with other prices. (3) Tho claim that overproduction has caused the fall in prices is unfounded. (a) Population has increased faster than production since 1873. B. The only fair dollar is one which is just the average dollar at which debts incurred since 1873 have been contracted...
...evidence of the theatre at Megalopolis and of certain pictures upon Greek vases from lower Italy. He showed that not only is the evidence of the plays themselves and also of other branches of literature in favor of the united action of actors and chorus on the same orchestral level, but that in none of the Greek theatres of the classical age, of which many have recently been laid open, has a genuine stage been discovered. What has hitherto been identified as a stage-the proskenion-is in fact only a decorative member. The hypothesis which the lecturer urged with...
...parity with gold. (a) The U. S. would not, as Bryan asserts, buy an ounce of silver, but simply coin all silver presented, and return it to owner. (b) All history shows that the unlimited coinage of an article has never been able to raise it to a level with gold, the market price having been beneath gold (Fiske: Critical Period of Amer. Hist. 1784-89; Blaine: Thirty Years in Congress, Vol. I.; Macaulay's History, Vol. I, II). (5) Free coinage would not give us bimetallism. (a) All our gold would be exported or hoarded, according to Gresham...