Word: thick
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...charred the connecting hallways and stairs. The fire, the cause of which is unknown, spread so rapidly to the top of the building that several men who were in their rooms at the time were forced to leave by ladders or rope fire escapes. The thick connecting brick wall prevented the fire from extending to the middle entry...
...instrument, about 19 tons, a peculiar mounting has been necessary. A new tube 21 feet long with a 60-inch aperture is being made and much of the old clock work and appliances will be changed for new ones operated by electricity. The reflecting lens is about 6 inches thick and weighs, with its cell, about a ton. The focal length is 28 1-2 feet. This gives an image upon a scale of 6 inches for a degree. The whole instrument will be covered by a moveable wooden shelter connected with a frame building, the upper floor of which...
...Thomas Nelson Perkins '91 then presented the President with a book containing an address signed by more than nine thousand three hundred Harvard graduates. The book is in two volumes, each twelve inches by fifteen inches and three inches thick, bound in crimson levant with a doublure of white levant stamped with the University seal in gold...
...keep in the centre of the boat. The crews are using a long, even stroke, but hang badly at the full reach. There is still so much ice in the river that the crews cannot get on the water for at least another week. The ice is very thick, and has torn up the marine railway, so that a new one will have to be built for the launch...
...West Point game no better than that of this year's team in the last two or three games. A successful outcome of the season can be secured this year, as in 1901, by the University standing back of the team through thick and thin. Men who take enough intelligent interest in the team to follow the practice closely will feel some personal satisfaction in a victorious ending of the year...