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Word: method (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Egypt with Dr. Virchow. He is anxious to discover the grave of Alexander the Great, but the place where it is supposed to be is covered by a mosque. Undaunted by this fact, Dr. Schliemann intends to dig a tunnel, or have the whole building moved, after the American method...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/30/1888 | See Source »

...method the spectra of various metals were obtained by burning the metal in the flame of a Bunser lamp placed before the slit of a spectroscope which had one prism. As a consequence the lines of the spectra were crowded together and confused. The modern method of observing spectra is by taking photographs in the spectroscope and composing the result with a photograph of the Sun's spectrum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Spectrum Analysis." | 3/17/1888 | See Source »

...extend the spectrum beyond the visible part. The great interest of to-day, however, centers in the invisible rays of heat. Until very recently, photographs could only be taken by violet rays of the spectrum. Now, however, the method has been extended so as to include the yellow and red rays, known as the all-day exposure method. Here the lecturer showed a photograph taken by Mr. Burbank, '89, of two sodium lines. It is the first one of the kind that has ever been produced. America has done more in the last fifty years to bring photography to perfection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Spectrum Analysis." | 3/17/1888 | See Source »

...critical this year-that our chances are very uncertain as yet, and that we must leave no stone unturned. I have heard many men express the desire that this petition be started, and I am sure that everybody would subscribe. The best way to go about would be the method employed in the prayer petition. At any rate the base-ball management, if it cares anything for the nine's success, must wake up and go to work on this matter, and at once, too, for we have only about a month. If it will only make the start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/7/1888 | See Source »

Secondy. Because the present method of instruction does not teach declamation but a clear, straightforward presentation of matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petition for a Course of in Elocution. | 3/5/1888 | See Source »

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