Word: things
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...delicate yet powerful machinery, by which the tube sixty feet long is to be pointed toward any part of the heavens, and kept in motion by clock work, has not yet been commenced. However, the completion of this machinery is only a question of time, and when every thing is finished Lick Observatory will have the largest and most powerful telescope in the world...
...thing, and one thing only, can be done to keep co-operation alive and to give us the benefits of the society for the rest of this year, and that is a voluntary assessment footing up to about $600. With that sum, and the sale of the greater part of the stock, it will be possible to run the society through the year on a smaller scale, -say coal and wood, book orders, stationery, tennis goods, and the list of affiliated tradesmen, and employing two clerks, and the superintendent only one day in the week. If there are three hundred...
...other department mention of which ought not to be omitted. That is the Turkish and Russian baths on the first floor. These are very large and complete, accommodations for thirty men being provided. Connected with them is a splendid cold water swimming tank. It is the finest thing in the whole building, and is 70 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 13 feet deep at the shallowest point...
...their money to go to the trouble of buying where they can buy cheapest, then the directors were quality of an error of judgment when they counted on there being more than a thousand such men. But we shall suffer sadly without co-operation in some form, and the thing to do now is to secure it, and secure it, if we can in a better form than that which has just proved itself at fault...
...Verily, a little thing sometimes brighten about a great reform...