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...fixed across the square spaces and next to the ribs of the craft, which will more than make up the loss in strength. The gain, structurally speaking, will be in the greater stiffness of the craft, which is in itself a great consideration and also will allow for a thinner skin than would otherwise be needed. Here is where the big reduction in weight comes. This difference is expected to be between fifteen and twenty pounds, which with the saving on the gunwale and rising will bring the weight of the boat to about two hundred and thirty pounds. This...
...meat croquettes (vulgarly called by some hash), are of an inferior qualiand the milk is growing thinner and thinner. One of the chaps got off quite a joke on it the other day. He said that the cow that gave that milk must have been suffering with the disease known as water on the brain. He was immediately carried from the table on the shoulders of the crowd and also received the election as humorous editor of the Lampoon...
...London are always worked as hard as the coach thinks that they will stand without making them sick, and it is very necessary that they should be cool and comfortable when off duty and resting, therefore they are provided with these flannel coats and trousers which are thinner, and cooler than the ordinary summer coat and trousers...
...blood of a healthy person is made. The fact is then developed that the blood corpuscules are ranged regularly in rows, but in an habitual user of tobacco these corpuscules are not ranged in order but are apparently confused, and the liquid which supports them is much thinner. So that, for instance, a cut in the hand of a man who uses the weed requires a much longer time to heal than a cut in the hand of one who does not. Tobacco acts first as an irritant, then has no effect, and finally as a paralyzing agent upon...
...visibly grew thinner...