Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Booths hopes by a series of tests of willingness and capacity to drain off the lowest tenth of the poor of London, and in this way to relieve the strain on those who are just able to gain a livelihood. He has at his command two important factors; 1st, his intense dramatic religion, 2d, his military organization. Allowing for the incalculable power of the first, supplemented by the effectiveness of the second, his work remains of gigantic proportions. He would remove from the city this wretched class, Christian, Pagan, Jew, young, old, without discrimination; he would put them on farms...
Again Mr. Bancroft was to represent his native country abroad and in 1867 became minister to Prussia. Seven years later he returned to Washington, where he has since resided. He then issued the tenth volume of his history and revised the whole work in 1876. He spent the next four years on a history of the government of the United States from 1783 to 1789. Mr. Bancroft's library, consisting of 12,000 volumes, is one of the finest collections in the country...
...Aper has given a photographic telescope 8 inches per hour for use in Cambridge, where 2.157 photographs have been taken making a chart of the sky from the north pole to 20 degrees south of the equator. Spectrit of stars as faint as the tenth magnitude have been obtained and umerous is important results obtained. The most interesting result has been the discovery by Miss Maury of a second star, Beta Aurigael, which is shown by the doubling of the lines in its spectrum at regular intervals to be a close binary, revolving once in about four days. The study...
...Tenth College Conference on the Study of the Bible. New Testament Times, II. Professor J. H. Thayer, Sever...
...Tenth College Conference on the Study of the Bible. New Testament Times, H. Professor J. H. Thayer. Sever...