Word: stillings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...engaged in research at the Harvard Observatory are freed, as far as possible, from computing and similar mechanical work. The number of assistants and computers is large but it is still insufficient. As a result a great amount of data has been accumulated which, except for compilation, is ready to be published. The incomplete work now in progress would make up twenty-eight volumes of the Annals...
...testing chronometers for the navy; of transit reductions and determinations of time. The observatory at Pulkowa is pre-eminent for the extreme accuracy of its observations. To this end the apparatus is of a special design and of great accuracy; the methods adopted there sixty years ago are said still to be far in advance of those at present existing in any other government observatory. The Kiel Observatory is the European centre for the announcement of astronomical news...
...achieved in his work no great success and had won no name. Versatile and brilliant he was indeed, and he had gained a wide knowledge of the world and keen insight into the characters of men; but still he was merely a writer with no definite purpose, and from among the various branches of literature had not finally chosen the kind of writing which he was to make peculiarly his own. Truth in writing, that power that scorns the sham and pictures the real, Thackeray had, and a fund of brilliant humor also. He had lacked the personal and distinctive...
...Boston Park commission last night announced good skating at the following places: Franklin Field, Roslindale, Billing's Field (West Roxbury), Columbus Avenue Play Grounds, and the North Brighton Play Grounds, on Western avenue, near Soldiers Field. Jamaica Pond is being cleared of snow, though the ice is still thin in some places. If cold weather continues the pond may be opened to the public tomorrow...
...large battery in the laboratory. An investigation was also taken up at the same time, on the subject of magnetism--to decide what degree of alternating current will reduce iron to a state of copper as far as magnetism is concerned. These two experiments are still in progress...