Word: wings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...BALDWIN.Y. M. C. A. meeting this evening at 6.45 in the east wing of Lawrence Hall...
...gallery in the new wing of the Museum of Fine Arts will be used for a permanent exhibition of architectural drawings of which the designs submitted in this competition will form a part...
...balanced ball weighing 20 lbs., but only when the force is slowly applied. When a force is exerted suddenly, considerable resistance is offered even by as mobile a body as air. Birds are enabled to fly only by the resistance of the air during the downward stroke of the wings. During the upward stroke, less resistance is offered, owing to the fact that the wing is convex on the upper side, and is at the same time contracted in area, thus moving with less velocity. In fact instantaneous photographs show that it takes twice the time to complete the upstroke...
...RAND, JR.BOYLSTON CHEMICAL CLUB.- Meeting to-night at 7.30 in 8 Boylston Hall. Paper by Dr. J. F. Wing...
...geography. Another section will include the botanical laboratories and a botanical museum, the materials for which have been accumulating for several years. These two buildings will form the central part of the front of the projected University Museum, of which the Museum of Comparative Zoology now forms the northern wing, while the Peabody Museum stands at the eastern extremity of the southern wing. Another large lecture room will also be provided, and proper consideration for the feelings of the students certainly demands that it be placed a few flights lower down than Professor Shaler's present lecture room...