Word: shaping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Oxford and Cambridge crews are now hard at work training for their annual race which takes place March 17. The average weight of the Oxford crew is 170 lbs., and that of the Cambridge crew 163 lbs. Cambridge is rowing in better shape and the odds are at present in her favor...
...long been recognized that the resources of universities should, as far as possible, be made accessible to those who might not be able to attend their regular terms. The first efforts in this direction were made in 1863 by teachers of Harvard College, and took the shape of a series of "University Lectures," intended primarily to serve the needs of teachers in the secondary schools. These lectures were in general given on Saturdays, but though the attendance was considerable, the difficulty of the work was found to be greater than the benefits justified, and the experiment was accordingly abandoned...
...being wounded and therefore useless to an enemy. Pictures were shown of hermit-crabs, which attached to themselves sea-anemonies for the purpose of self-defence, the anemonies being offensive to hostile fishes. One picture represented a deep-sea fish which attracts its prey by a lure in the shape of a phosphorescent light; another showed a snap-turtle which lies for hours with its mouth open and entices small fish by means of filaments on its tongue which look like worms...
...spoke last for Yale. He referred the audience to the lexicon definition of independent and allegiance and presented the resolution in its new form: "That political action in accordance with one's own will, judgment or conscience is preferable to unswerving allegiance to party." With the resolution thus in shape he proposed to strike at the root of the matter and consider what is a man's chief duty to civil society. Without doubt it is to establish and maintain a civil government that shall promote the chief ends of civil society, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. From...
...Thomas D. Lockwood, of the American Bell Telephone Company, delivered a lecture last night, before a large audience, on "The Progressive Evolution of the Telephone System of today." Mr. Lockwood said that the first appearance of the telephone in anything like its present shape was in 1876, when a very simple apparatus, which could transmit a few words and phrases, was placed on exhibition at the Centennial Exhibition by its inventor, Mr. Alexander Graham Bell. The first form was what is known as the magneto telephone, which consisted of an electro magnet at each end of the line in front...