Word: stronge
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ought to begin promptly at nine o'clock in the morning. Since compulsory prayers were abolished, however, the tendency has become marked among a large number of students to delay the commencement of the work of the day until long after nine. The habit of tardiness has taken a strong hold especially upon those who have lectures during the first hour and has proved such a source of annoyance to several of the professors as to cause them to adopt the practice of locking the doors of the lecture room at five minutes past nine...
...appears, from the observations, that the type of corona repeats itself in a period about the same as that of the solar spots, the corona of 1889 strongly resembling those of 1868 and 1878. The most important observations made at the eclipses of the dates just mentioned were obtained by the United States naval observatory. Its photographs and those of the Harvard expedition in January show an appearance of the corona to the east of the sun, much like that of a wedge, its sides extending far out in wavy lines; on the other side of the sun the coroan...
...scientific circles for many years, will, no doubt, be conclusively settled on the development of the plates used by the Harvard expedition. It is the question whether or not any planet exists nearer the sun than Mercury. The opinions on this subject are divided. Each side has many strong arguments, but it has generally been conceded that, if judgment may be made from the movements of the other planetary bodies, this slight defection at times from their proper course would indicate the influence of an intra-Mercurial planet...
...Mott Haven team in past years has always been very large, and to this fact its success is largely to be attributed We hope, therefore, that the call for men this year will be heeded, and that there may be no lack of men from whom a strong team may be chosen to meat our rival colleges in New York next...
...whose re-election was unconstitutional. In the literature of the time there was no allusion to the result of the coming elections. for everybody knew that both parties were prepared for violence. The question was who would come in first? Now things are different. The president is a strong republican, universally respected by the people, whose term has just begun. The Senate is also republican, and no elections will take place for it until 1891. The term of the Chamber of Deputies, however, expires in October 1889, and the question is who will have the majority in the new Chamber...