Word: tension
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Physical Seminar this evening, Mr. Buckingham will lecture on capillarity and surface tension, and Mr. Pulsford will show his recent discovery, besides giving a short lecture on the methods before in vogue. All interested in Physics are invited to attend...
NATURAL HISTORY. 1. The Mound-builders. 2. Theories of glacial motion. 3. The Lake Dwellers. 4. Is Natural selection the sole cause of Evolution? 5. The Colors of Autumn Leaves. 6. The tension of vegetable tissues. 7. The effects of light on Plants. 8. Can disease-germs be distroyed by the so-called disinfectants...
According to the Lancet, "brain tension is not a proof of strength but of weakness. The knit brow, straining eyes, and fixed attention of the scholar are not tokens of power, but of effort. The intellectual man with a strong mind does his brain work easily. Tension is friction, and the moment the toil of a growing brain becomes laborious it should cease. We are, unfortunately, so accustomed to see brain work done with effort that we have come to associate effort with work, and to regard tension as something tolerable, if not natural. As a matter of fact...
...spell was broken; there was a sudden movement. One of the pretty heads was bent low over the back of the seat in front. Had the terrible tension at last given way? Would she roll off the seat with merriment? Would it be necessary for me gently to hold her in her place...
DEAR FRIEND, - The charms of my University life exceed even my fondest anticipations. Society here is intense. Cambridge is so rich in intellectual life, in local color, that one's faculties are kept in constant tension. I feel that I am improving very fast under these stimulating influences. The instructors are all men of tone. Some of them are inclined to talk upon matters not connected with the recitation, but they are always interesting. I am delighted to be able to tell you that Harvard has been grossly misrepresented by the public press. The students do not even stare...