Word: methods
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Coming now to the method of taking photographs, the lecturer showed the difference in the process. In taking a photograph with cathode rays a plain dry plate is used. There are the customary slides in the holder but there is no central opaque partition. The hand or object to be photographed is put on the slide and you get a photograph of the shade. As glass absorbs the rays a lens would be of no use and would prevent the taking of a photograph. Thus the common process of photographing is exactly reversed with the cathode rays. This was illustrated...
...method of judging is somewhat different from that used in the intercollegiate competition, and consists of a bout for an aggregate of five touches to which the judges may add three points or any portion thereof for excellence in attack, defence, or general good form...
...special meeting of Phi Beta Kappa the constitution was amended, so that all men who receive junior appointments of the two highest grades will be eligible for membership, a restoration of the original method...
...trump may be turned for each hand, or the same trump may be used throughout the entire match, at the option of the players; the latter method to prevail in case of a division of opinion...
...convertibility upon gold. For the legal tender notes are redeemable in gold and the silver certificates, circulating side by side, are practically as good as legal tenders and the national bank notes are convertible into the latter. But the United States has never been able to find an effective method for maintaining the gold reserve. In fact, the trouble lies in the fact that the U. S. treasury performs two functions that should never be united, (a) that of financial agent to the government, (b) the duty of maintaining a gold reserve. The latter function should not be made...