Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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 by a picture thrown on the screen where a camera was shown with the larger end towards the cathode and the lens pointed away uselessly...
...very probable that University will continue to increase at present rate.- (I) Only check on increase is growth of Western universities.- (II) Such growth is likely to be very slow.- (y) Such a club, ipse facto, must be of somewhat limited facilities.- (2) It would not then prevent social disintegration.- (x) It would not then "furnish a meeting place for mass of students."- (y) It would not then unify Harvard spirit.- (b) No experience of other universities can form a basis of argument as to success of this.- (1) Oxford and Cambridge Unions are successes because number of students...
...baths which seems to me to be of much greater importance than the laying of slates in the drying room. I refer to the constant dripping of scalding drops from the hot water pipes on to the shoulders of the bathers. Can not something be done to prevent this...
...Armenian Relief Committee, lectured in the Fogg Museum on "Armenia and the Red Cross." He was introduced by Professor Goodwin, who spoke briefly of the barbarism always attendant upon Turkish rule, and referred to the case in which the United States formerly interfered in the interests of Greece to prevent Turkish outrages. The lecture then took up his subect...
...simply an assertion which we offer to make good by force; is the Venezuela incident such a menace to our interest as calls for the assertion of it; if so, shall it be asserted to the point of war or only so far as to prevent an implied surrender of it; does it involve the corrolary now asserted by our government, that "today the United States is practically sovereign on the continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confirms its interposition;" does it involve the position, also asserted, "that distance and 3000 miles of intervening...