Word: placing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...place of form of stone...
...place of the noon lecture in the Law School on Tuesday last, Mr. Washburn pronounced a eulogy on the late Henry Wilson, which is said by those present to have been very eloquent...
...discovery, or, perhaps better, invention, has just been made by Professor Wolcott Gibbs, of our University, and is known as the Ammonic Nitrate Battery. This is the second improved species of battery that Professor Gibbs has invented, the first being the Bichromate Potash Battery, which has already taken the place of the old Bunsen Battery on the Western Union Telegraph lines. These batteries are in form like the Bunsen Battery; the Bichromate Battery, though improving little on the Bunsen in cleanness, yet gets rid of the fumes which make the latter battery so disagreeable for use. The Ammonic Nitrate Battery...
...volumes. Of the two plans proposed for stacking the books, the one which proposes to divide the stacking-room into alcoves will give but three hundred and fifty six feet on one level for stacking while the other plan, which is to stack the books in shelves placed in the body of the room, running width-ways, with passages two feet wide between each shelf, and connected by a set of shelves running at right angles through the middle, gives eight hundred and eighty-four feet. The objections to the inconvenience in referring to books, caused by the narrowness...
...disasters of '44, might still have the honor of erecting the first memorial window; but in case this were denied her, she still would have the satisfaction of seeing her memorial in position on her class day, and of feeling that she was among the foremost to place her contribution in the hall...