Word: wide
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have been prepared for a new dormitory building, which are to be submitted to the corporation. The question respecting the erection of the building has not yet been decided. The matter will be dependent on their action. The plans call for a dormitory 120 feet long by 46 feet wide and five stories in height, not including a high studded basement. It is roughly estimated that the new structure will cost about...
...Moselle respectively. The region drained by the Meuse is very narrow. The river itself is like the trimmed Lombardy poplars which grew along the roadsides in France, having a long slim trunk and few branches. Unlike the Meuse the Seine and the Moselle draw their waters from a wide area...
...Meuse is a very narrow stream. The valley is wide and appears to have been eaten out by a much larger stream. The reason that the Meuse is so narrow is that its waters have been robbed by the Moselle. The Meuse winds in and out among steep bluffs, the bluff being always on the outside of the curve. The valley of the Meuse is a great vineyard growing country...
...swimming tank in the Brokaw Memorial has been open for use during the last few days, although not yet formally handed over to the college authorities, since some further arrangements must be made to perfect the heating apparatus. The tank is over one hundred feet long, about twenty feet wide, and the water is kept at a depth of about seven feet. It is lined with white tile and fitted up with spring boards, trapezes, rings and overhanging rings. The water circulates continually through pipes leading to the immense boiler where the water is heated. The dressing rooms connected with...
...very sensitive Cramer dry-plate about four inches long and 1.5 inches wide, was put, film side up, into a wooden box, having a close-fitting sliding wooden cover. Upon the sensitive plate were laid two clear glass slips, less than one sixteenth of an inch thick. A space was left between them about four inches long and one half an inch deep. Across the glass slips to hold them in place was put a narrow bar of pine wood five-sixteenths of an inch thick. The wooden cover, three-sixteenths of an inch thick, was then pushed into place...