Word: window
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...generally interested in scientific experiments, but there is something so mysterious about the invisible rays that it is no wonder their interest has been aroused. The rays pass through boards, ebonite, thin metals, and penetrate the inmost parts of the body and yet they do not pass through a window pane...
...aluminum will absorb only a portion of the rays. The glass of the Crooke's tube is only 1-60th of an inch thick, but even glass as thin as this absorbs so many rays that it presents great obstacles. It has been suggested that an aluminum window be put in the tube and that the photographs be taken with the rays that come through the aluminum, for the reason that the aluminum absorbs hardly any rays while the thinnest glass absorbs an enormous number of them. The objection to the aluminum window is that the atmospheric pressure...
FRESHMAN CREW.- Time to row will be posted in the CRIMSON office window at noon...
...lockers. To this man the applicant for a locker goes first. From him he learns what lockers still remain untaken, and then after choosing the one of those left that he prefers, he gets the card for this locker from the man mentioned. He presents this at the inner window of the Gymnasium office, where he signs. He then takes his card, which will be returned to him, to the outer window of the same office and receives the combination for his locker...
...From a Graduate's Window" we are told of a dialogue with Socrates in which that philosopher "roasts" the Fogg Museum and the Corporation's utilitarian view of architecture. On his own responsibility "Graduate" satirizes the diplomacy of intercollegiate sport, especially with relation to a certain affair between colleges "A" and "B." He closes with "two maxims, long held as truths among antediluvians: 'Do not whitewash ! Cultivate sport for the sake of sport, and for nothing else...