Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...twenty-four hours in the day, President Eliot would have the student devote ten to work. This proposition may sound extreme. It must be taken with certain modifications and explanations. In the general term "work," are included all lectures and library work, together with the time necessarily consumed in passing from one form of occupation to another. Moreover, Sunday is always to be free from work, as is an extra half-day in each week...
...SALE.- A strong, active pony, broken to saddle and harness, good appearing, free from tricks and sound. Also meadow-brook cart and harness. Address, X, Box 2007, Boston...
...choir sang "O 'Twas a Joyful Sound," by H. W. Parker; "They that Wait upon the Lord," by Stainer; "Look Down O Lord," by Mendelssohn...
Football, besides forming sound bodies and better standards of morality, has another advantage of great account, and this is the spirit of enthusiasm which it stimulates. It teaches a man self reliance, and gives him courage to bear up under defeat, and to try anew with fresh vigor. The danger in playing football is certainly no greater than in many of the other good out-door sports such as polo, and no out-door game is worth a rap into which no accident or mishap could possibly find...
...which consisted of an electro magnet at each end of the line in front of which were placed armatures. When one of these armatures was vibrated the same vibrations were observed in the other. Mr. Bell then found that by means of a small diaphragm he could transmit the sound waves made by the voice to a diaphragm at the other end of the line. He now gave all his attention to perfecting this diaphragm transmitter and in 1877 brought it to the familiar form in which it has remained ever since. When the magneto telephone had been perfected...