Cyclopedic Review of Current History, Volume 6Alfred Sidney Johnson Garretson, Cox & Company, 1897 |
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... held before the fluorescent screen , the shadow shows the bones darkly , with only faint outlines of the surrounding tissues . Water and several other fluids are very transparent . Hydrogen is not mark- edly more permeable than air ...
... held before the fluorescent screen , the shadow shows the bones darkly , with only faint outlines of the surrounding tissues . Water and several other fluids are very transparent . Hydrogen is not mark- edly more permeable than air ...
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... held up even at a distance of fifteen feet in front of the Crookes tube ; and Mr. Edison is reported to have gazed upon the bones of his own hand through eight inches of wood . The prac tical utility of the fluoroscope for the ...
... held up even at a distance of fifteen feet in front of the Crookes tube ; and Mr. Edison is reported to have gazed upon the bones of his own hand through eight inches of wood . The prac tical utility of the fluoroscope for the ...
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... held an important con- ference in Philadelphia , at which was discussed the feasibil- ity of a permanent court of arbitration for adjustment of all disputes between Great Britain and the United States . A number of men of national ...
... held an important con- ference in Philadelphia , at which was discussed the feasibil- ity of a permanent court of arbitration for adjustment of all disputes between Great Britain and the United States . A number of men of national ...
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... held Bona- " parte baffled at the head of his superb army in Spain ; and a chief rebel ally is the fever , which , recurring with the seasons , makes the camps of unacclimated European sol- diers to resemble field hospitals . The year ...
... held Bona- " parte baffled at the head of his superb army in Spain ; and a chief rebel ally is the fever , which , recurring with the seasons , makes the camps of unacclimated European sol- diers to resemble field hospitals . The year ...
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... held large clothing and commissary supplies . Gomez refrained from plun- dering or damaging the city , but took a large amount of military supplies , including more than 200,000 cartridges . After holding the city five hours , he ...
... held large clothing and commissary supplies . Gomez refrained from plun- dering or damaging the city , but took a large amount of military supplies , including more than 200,000 cartridges . After holding the city five hours , he ...
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Page 124 - To perpetuate the memory and spirit of the men and women who achieved American Independence, by the acquisition and protection of historical spots, and the erection of monuments ; by the encouragement of historical research in relation to the Revolution and the publication of its results; by the preservation of documents and relics, and of the records of the individual services of Revolutionary soldiers and patriots, and by the promotion of celebrations of all patriotic anniversaries.
Page 256 - We are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to debase our currency or impair the credit of our country. We are therefore opposed to the free coinage of silver, except by international agreement with the leading commercial nations of the earth, which we pledge ourselves to promote; and until such agreement can be obtained the existing gold standard must be maintained.
Page 462 - One word characterises the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perseveringly during fifty-five years; that word is failure. I know no more of electric and magnetic force or of the relation between ether, electricity, and ponderable matter, or of chemical affinity, than I knew and tried to teach to my students of natural philosophy fifty years ago in my first session as Professor.
Page 814 - In deciding the matters submitted to the Arbitrators they shall be governed by the following three rules, which are agreed upon by the High Contracting Parties as rules to be taken as applicable to the case...
Page 814 - Arbitrators may deem to be applicable to the case, and which are not in contravention of the foregoing rule. (c .) In determining the boundary-line, if territory of one Party be found by the Tribunal to have been at the date of this Treaty in the occupation of the subjects or citizens of the other Party, such effect shall be given to such occupation as reason, justice, the principles of international law, and the equities of the case shall, in the opinion of the Tribunal, require.
Page 805 - When the inability of Spain to deal successfully with the insurrection has become manifest, and it is demonstrated that her sovereignty is extinct in Cuba for all purposes of its rightful existence, and when a hopeless struggle for its reestablishment has degenerated into a strife which means nothing more than the useless sacrifice of human life and the utter destruction of the very subject-matter of the conflict, a situation will be presented in which our obligations to the sovereignty of Spain...
Page 276 - We denounce arbitrary interference by Federal authorities in local affairs as a violation of the Constitution of the United States and a crime against free institutions, and we especially object to government by injunction as a new and highly dangerous form of oppression by which Federal 'Judges, in contempt of the laws of the States and rights of citizens, become at once legislators, judges, and executioners...
Page 256 - All our silver and paper currency must be maintained at parity with gold, and we favor all measures designed to maintain inviolably the obligations of the United States and all our money, whether coin or paper, at the present standard, the standard of the most enlightened nations of the earth.
Page 278 - Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
Page 844 - We demand the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation.