Word: threading
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cambridgeport for the purpose of building electrical dynamos, lamps, and all the other necessities for electric lighting, after models which he had himself invented. Many improvements over the old dynamos and lamps have been made, especially in the lamps, the filaments of which are made of a silk thread, instead of the bamboo strips and other substances used by other inventors, the great advantages of which seem to be that the silk is perfectly pliable after being carbonized, that the lamps thus constructed require less power to produce lights than heretofore, and lastly, that these filaments can be manufactured...
...year eighteen hundred and eighty-five has now yielded to a successor, and the class that was graduated last June now feels itself more completely separated from its alma mater. The lingering year, with its '85, was sort of a thread holding the class to the college; but now that thread has gone, and the '85 man says, "I was graduated last year." But it is different with the senior of '86. He says, at once with pleasure and with regret, "I am graduated this year." Thus the coming of a new year seems somehow to make more...
...representing Kayyam in too dark a light, the conclusions are by no means fanciful, and are upon their face the result of deep study and clear ideas. It is a question, however, whether the Tent-maker of Naishapur can be so systematically interpreted throughout. Is it true that a thread of despair runs through the mystic lines of Omar and darkens all their thought? One long magazine article has been written upon the concluding line alone of the poem to disprove this view. But the unity and evident earnestness of Mr. Houghton's work will redeem any possible error...
...pursued by some of the reporters of the Boston dailies in their accounts of recent accidents at Harvard. We think that this letter requires no comment, other than the remarks that the reports published in the Boston press were dressed in most glaring colors and had but a thin thread of truth running through them. We must again make a distinction between the legitimate gathering of news, and the sensational writing which too often is made to appear as the account of actual occurrences...
...gladness there runs a thread of sadness. No more shall the familiar walls re echo the cry of '85,- each class as it leaves becomes simply a memory of the past. It is fitting that that memory should be drowned in a last prolonged rejoicing. The day on which the sun nowhere else shines so brightly, on which even the ancient gods seem nowhere to smile so kindly as at the college which gave it birth is a fitting close to the years of labor. Then let us take leave of the day with its coolness and its quiet...