Word: parallele
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...give a joint exhibition was also accepted and a date in the latter part of February will probably be selected. The various sections are at present doing active work. The first meet will be held on December 11, and contests in the following will take place: Horizontal bar, parallel bars, club swinging, long horse. At the same time Mr. Wm. Maltby of New York City will give an exhibition in fancy bicycle riding...
...supposed that crystals are made up of crystal Molecules, arranged with perfect regularity and composed of a large number of chemical molecules. In all parallel planes there is the same distribution of molecules. The closer they are together in a plane, the greater is the distance apart of two similar planes. The farther apart two planes are, the less is their cohesion. Only certain planes occur in Nature. The lecturer illustrated his talk by various specimens, models...
...before, except during rate wars: N. Y. Ry. Commission Report of 1884, I: 77.- (c) It checks consolidation and monopoly.- (1) The powerful companies cannot, by cutting rates, ruin, and then absorb, the smaller roads: Pol. Sci. Quar. '87, p. 388.- (d) It tends to lessen the construction of parallel lines.- (1) New roads, obtaining only a fair share of traffic under pooling system, cannot compete with old established lines.- (2) Parallel lines are usually constructed on wild-cat schemes, with expected profit through rate-cutting, railway wars, etc.- (3) Parallel lines are detrimental to the public. (a) One line...
...service: J. F. Hudson, Railways and the Republic, p. 229.- (i) A road will get from the pool its alloted share of patronage whether it affords the best or the poorest service to the public.- (b) Pooling causes an artificial maintenance of rates, which stimulate the construction of parallel and competing lines: Select Senate Comm. Rept. on Inter-State Commerce, Evidence, pp. 888, 1295, 127.- (c) Pools tend to increase the frequency and violence of Railway wars: Hudson, p. 232.- (i) Weak companies resort to wars to secure the privileges of combination.- (ii) Strong companies resort to war to prevent...
...with the legs bent, added to the strength of the grip in the right and left hands, expiratory power as tested by the manometer, and one-tenth of the weight in kilos multiplied by the number of times that the person can raise his weight by dipping between the parallel bars and pulling his weight up to his chin on the rings. Where the strength test falls below the desired standard the capacity of lungs will be taken into account in summing up the condition...