Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...making it disagreeable for second story dwellers, decreased the value of real estate along its route; while the cable system, by its rapid and easy transit would bring the suburbs nearer the city and raise the value of real estate in them correspondingly. The cable is run along a trench under the tracks; is operated by steam power at the ends of the route; is kept taut by a system of weights at its extremities, which rise and fall according to the number and weight of the cars attached. A slot about three-quarters of an inch wide runs between...
...Street, just opposite Holyoke St. On every moist day, on each side of the walk leading from the Chapel to Memorial, two large pools of water are formed which gradually rise and overflow the path; then our generous authorities send a couple of stalwart Irishmen who dig a small trench across the path, drawing the small puddle into the larger, and making the walk in the meanwhile a regular quicksand. The end of the walk opposite Holyoke St. is still worse; the stones are sunken and uneven. and on the rainy days that are so common in Cambridge...
...Jefferson" physical laboratory on Holmes field is to be surrounded with a trench filled with stones to deaden street jars and secure accuracy in experiments. Over the building will rise a double-walled tower intended for experiments with long pendulums and for investigations of the atmosphere...
...edition of the "Theaetetus" of Plato, which first appeared in 1861, will contain more than one hundred pages of new matter, and is expected to appear early in February. Prof. Campbell has also just completed an English translation of Sophocles, which will shortly be published by Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., and to which he has prefixed a long prefatory note...
...CONVERSATION: Its Faults and its Graces. Compiled by Rev. Andrew P. Peabody, D. D., LL. D." This little "Handbook of Conversation," by Dr. Peabody, comprises in four parts his "Address to Young Ladies," "Francis Trench on Conversation," "A Word to the Wise," and "Mistakes and Improprieties of Conversation and Writing Corrected." The address is a clear and positive exposition of the general laws and rules that should govern conversation, and though originally written for and delivered before young ladies, the principles set forth are applicable alike to all persons. The doctor's wide experience of life and society makes...