Word: method
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...desirable continuity is given to the Senate by legislative election.- (A) The present method tends to reelection-two-thirds of all elections to the Senate being re-elections (Bryce, 192).- (B) It affords the legislative department of our government greater experience with important affairs, especially our foreign policy.- (C).- election would be less frequesnt by popular election.- (1) The people believe in the rotationof office (Bryce, 128-9); as illustrated in the case of our governors and congressmen 9Bryce...
...larger than a ten cent piece; and there is no cement which is serviceable for any length of time. Glass is the only practical substance for Crookes tubes. The great difficulty at present in the application of the cathode photography to surgery lies in the expense of the method. In order to take a photograph of the hand to detect a bullet for instance, or a piece of glass, at least two photographs should be taken-in the obverse and reverse portions of the hand with respect to the sensitive plate. In doing this one is liable to break...
...future of the method seems to lie in the application of currents of high frequency and very great electromotive force, such as one obtains by the use of the Thomson or Tesla coil and by the use of only one terminal. In this way the breakage of the tubes can be prevented...
...taken. As soon as a star is noticed with hydrogen lines on its spectrum, a reference is immediately made to the photpraphs made in that region where the star is found. From these different photographs it can be learned whether the star is always of the same brightness. This method leads to the discovery of more variable stars here than in any other place, as the Harvard Observatory is the only one which uses this system. The ordinary way of finding variable stars is by watching each night to see if they change in brightness. As yet no star, whose...
...tickets which are at Leavitt and Pierce's will admit the bearers, so that it is necessary for men to preserve these tickets carefully. There is to be no regular method of seating, so that students may thus sit with their friends...