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Word: pushed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CATHODE RAYS. | 2/20/1896 | See Source »

This higher view of religion, that one should push on, past the mere signs, to the power which lies behind them, is too often forgotten. Much as men will labor for mental civilization, they wish to gain easily, at a single step, a perfect faith and thorough understanding of the truth. They forget that no valuable result can be won without a struggle, and become discouraged at the very first difficulty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VESPER SERVICE. | 12/6/1895 | See Source »

Between the halves of the football game on Saturday, a push ball game was played between the Newton Athletic Association team and a picked Harvard team. The Newton eight were heavier, and outplayed their opponents, although the Harvard team did all the scoring for two innings. The winning point was made in the third inning by the clever play of the Newton line, which gave first and only touchdown of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Push Ball Game. | 11/25/1895 | See Source »

Interest in the new game of push ball has developed enormously during the past week. Not only has the regular work of practice grown into favor, but the football management have deemed it worthy to be played during the big football game on Saturday. A match game will, therefore be played, between the Newton Athletic Association, the organization which introduced the game this fall, and a picked Harvard team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Push Ball Game. | 11/22/1895 | See Source »

...difficulty of there being only one ball in existence will probably be eliminated, as a New York firm is prepared to make a serviceable push ball for one third the cost of the present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Push Ball Game. | 11/22/1895 | See Source »

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