Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from the thighs. Almost, but not quite at the same moment, the legs begin their office. They drlve-drive the slide back and the oar through as the body swings until towards the finish the knees are flattened down and the stroke is thus pressed in a firm and solid sweep right home on to the chest, the outside hand of elbow being swung past the side and the shoulders rowed back. The pressure is not relaxed for a moment since the finish is the most important part of the whole stroke. For a good solid finish flow a steady...
...Editorial' emphasizes a growing evil in our system of study. The writer examines thoroughly the conflict in principle between the hour examination and the thesis, and brings forcibly to light the practical abuses of the mixed system. His statement that a thesis will infallibly require "a withdrawal for solid days together from all other work" will be heartily endorsed by all students; and his appeal for a system which shall hamper less the earnes worker, will be heartily seconded...
There were four routes proposed for the canal-the southern route; the route by Panama; the ship railway, and the canal through lake Nicaragua. It was found that the southern route would require a tunnel to be drilled through solid rock, high enough to allow there lower masts of a ship to pass under. This trunnel would have been very expensive, and it was also found that the expense that would have to be increased in sending down the topmast of vessels would offset the advantage gained by the canal, so the scheme was a bandoned. The plan...
...greater part of what we now have, especially in the form of seals, is due to their efforts. Among the interesting speciments of the collection was one which had belonged to King Nebuchadnezzar. It was a book formed from stone into the shape of a barrel, being entirely solid. On it were various writings of historical interest, and at the end of all, blessing and prosperity from the gods for the king Nebuchednezzar and his family. The writing was carefully done and showed much exactness on the part of the writer. It was the custom for the people to wear...
...stones. The seats ascended in curves one above another, and are divided by stairways into wedge shaped divisions. The outer row of seats was about three hundred feet from the orchestra and had an actual elevation of one hundred feet above it. The front row of seats are of solid Pentelic marble and have backs. The rows immediately behind them are not cut out of the solid rock as they are higher up, but are made of limestone from the Peiraeus. The theatre must have once been a noble and majestic structure but it is now only a bewildering mass...