Word: tap
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...southern California and along the Rio Grande irrigation is carried on very scientifically and advantageously. The method used at present is to tap a stream up in the mountains; water is led off by long canals down into the valleys, and each farmer in turn taps the canal to irrigate his land. The laterals are at times but 100 feet apart, and the water flowing through them moistens all the intervening ground...
...subjects and every frequenter of the library has unquestioned access to the 25,000 volumes here shelved as a reference library. The floor is ditted with tables, to which the reader may freely take as many books as he requires, and as the dusk comes on, a tap of the bell from the librarian's room to the engineer puts at his disposal a movable electric light, which he may turn on or off at will. All the tables have individual lights, and the shades for these burners and for those about the room were so arranged, in consultation with...
Yale enthusiasm-Two nines, composed of men who have not played base-ball since entering college, will contend for a box of cigars and a keg of beer at Hamilton Park on Wednesday at 2 P. M.-the beer to be put on tap at Traeger's in the evening. [News...