Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...never be secure until a systematic method of training our college students shall have been adopted in the universities. There are at least a score of institutions which could aid in carrying on the work now under government auspices. Therefore to formulate a plan whereby the work of West Point and Annapolis can be supplemented, ought to be the duty of a special commission, including scientific educators, and military and naval officers...
...peremptory message was justifiable.- (1) Affairs demanded an immediate and firm stand on the part of the United States.- (a) England, with no authority but a disputed claim, was on the point of occupation: H. C. Lodge in Cong. Record, Dec. 30, 1895, p. 360.- (b) England had refused to arbitrate.- (2) It is in conformity with public opinion.- (a) It has unqualified support of the Senate and House of Representatives.- (b) English public opinion now generally approves it.- (x) As seen in the London Shipping World, London Chronicle, Pall Mall Gazette, St. James Gazette.- (y) Speeches at the opening...
...accounts of experiments mention is made of Crooke's tube. As the lecturer showed, it is nothing more than a large receiver of air from which the air can be exhausted. In order to get the rays, however, you must push the exhaustion only to a certain point. Now instead of using the 10,000 cells already mentioned to produce the pale blue flame, a Ruhmkoff coil is introduced, which makes it possible to get a high electro-motive force...
...transformation of the Ruhmkoff coils in series and connecting the coils with the tube and then exhausting the air, you get the cathode rays. At this point the experiment was performed. The light in the Crooke's tube was a pale blue on the two pole and light pink in the centre. A fluorescence was given off which was of a light blueish-green color. This, Professor Trowbridge explained, was thought by some to be the cathode rays, but the point is still in doubt. No one knows what the rays are. In connection with this the lecturer took...
...this point Professor Trowbridge had several pictures thrown on the screen. The first was of several coins which had been in his pocket-book which had been put in a wooden box that had been surrounded by a pasteboard box. The next picture was of a turkey's wing which showed the bones and a bullet which had been shot into it. The third picture was again of a turkey's wing with three shots in it, and a ring taken by a to and fro current which is the professor's way of finding out the distance...