Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...important question which has been a mooted one in scientific circles for many years, will, no doubt, be conclusively settled on the development of the plates used by the Harvard expedition. It is the question whether or not any planet exists nearer the sun than Mercury. The opinions on this subject are divided. Each side has many strong arguments, but it has generally been conceded that, if judgment may be made from the movements of the other planetary bodies, this slight defection at times from their proper course would indicate the influence of an intra-Mercurial planet...
According to the plans there are two stack-rooms, placed at right angles to each other; by this arrangement all the books are brought nearer the delivery desk, and future extensions of the stack-rooms are made an easy matter...
...senior germans at other colleges. Care ought to be taken, then, that they should be worthy of the two clubs that have them in charge, and of the college. It is a shame that the many young ladies who come from long distances for these concerts and our friends nearer at hand who turn out in such flattering numbers, should have their delight marred by anything second rate. Without essentially changing the nature of the dance, two improvements can be easily made. First, for twenty-five dollars more than is now paid, the best dance orchestra in Boston...
...start has been shifted eastward fifteen feet. This will give the west crew deeper water than it has formerly had. For two miles the course is unchanged, but after the two-mile flag the course bends west, then strikes straight for the finish. The finish flag will be nearer the Groton shore than usual to avoid the docks used in building the new railroad bridge which will cross the river here...
...electric will not work in winter; the elevated system, by darkening the streets and stores in addition to making it disagreeable for second story dwellers, decreased the value of real estate along its route; while the cable system, by its rapid and easy transit would bring the suburbs nearer the city and raise the value of real estate in them correspondingly. The cable is run along a trench under the tracks; is operated by steam power at the ends of the route; is kept taut by a system of weights at its extremities, which rise and fall according...