Word: width
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...brick with sandstone trimmings. It is intended to give the design the character of colonial architecture, so that it may harmonize with the old College buildings. The main hall will be finished up to the roof. The height will be 52 feet, the length 112, and the width from 63 to 80 feet. Special quarters are to be provided for the Crew and Nine, and nine bowling alleys will be placed in the basement. The estimated cost...
...crew received last Monday a paper boat from Waters and Sons. The dimensions are: length, 58 feet; width, 25 inches; weight, 240 pounds. This boat was obtained through the generous gift of a graduate, whose name is withheld. The interest in boating manifested by some of our graduates seemed to take the form of an eager desire to give the goddess of Harvard rowing, when she was down, a sound drubbing, and then take away what little means she had of raising herself. This unknown gentleman has extended to her a strong helping hand, left her to use the props...
...stacking the books, the one which proposes to divide the stacking-room into alcoves will give but three hundred and fifty six feet on one level for stacking while the other plan, which is to stack the books in shelves placed in the body of the room, running width-ways, with passages two feet wide between each shelf, and connected by a set of shelves running at right angles through the middle, gives eight hundred and eighty-four feet. The objections to the inconvenience in referring to books, caused by the narrowness of the passages, are overcome by the placing...
...grounds shall not be more than 400 feet nor less than 300 feet long, and one half the length in width...
Boat by John Blaikie, Cambridge, Mass.; length, 49 ft. 6 in.; width, 21 in.; weight...