Popular Science Monthly, Volum 68McClure, Phillips and Company, 1906 |
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Side 56
... evidence that instead of the ear originating from the fusion of a num- ber of two - rowed spikes , it developed directly from the central spike of some tassel - like structure similar to the well - known corn tassel . Tassels may be ...
... evidence that instead of the ear originating from the fusion of a num- ber of two - rowed spikes , it developed directly from the central spike of some tassel - like structure similar to the well - known corn tassel . Tassels may be ...
Side 67
... evidence that Baird was using his own eyes , and not depend- ing too much upon the work of others . Another discovery , of some- what later date , was an apparently extinct rat of large size , the remains of which occurred in the bone ...
... evidence that Baird was using his own eyes , and not depend- ing too much upon the work of others . Another discovery , of some- what later date , was an apparently extinct rat of large size , the remains of which occurred in the bone ...
Side 70
... evidence of his wonderful perseverance which is worth citing . In March of that year he wished to send the well - known naturalist and traveler , Robert Kennicott , to the region of the Hudson Bay for speci- mens . The Smithsonian had ...
... evidence of his wonderful perseverance which is worth citing . In March of that year he wished to send the well - known naturalist and traveler , Robert Kennicott , to the region of the Hudson Bay for speci- mens . The Smithsonian had ...
Side 108
... evidence that in the in- land provinces of Honan , Hunan , Shansi and Szechuan , as well as in the literary centers nearer the port cities , the literati were greatly dis- appointed when the Manchu clan leaders crushed the plans of ...
... evidence that in the in- land provinces of Honan , Hunan , Shansi and Szechuan , as well as in the literary centers nearer the port cities , the literati were greatly dis- appointed when the Manchu clan leaders crushed the plans of ...
Side 120
... evidence so clearly exhibited , in regard to the subconscious operations that are normally required to shape sense and utterance to a successful issue . The central relation seems to be this : the complexity of speech requires the ...
... evidence so clearly exhibited , in regard to the subconscious operations that are normally required to shape sense and utterance to a successful issue . The central relation seems to be this : the complexity of speech requires the ...
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Side 418 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Side 302 - For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Side 373 - Through glowing orchards forth they peep, Each from its nook of leaves ; And fearless there the lowly sleep, As the bird beneath their eaves.
Side 22 - LET it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point.
Side 478 - I mean stock to remain in this country, to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Side 40 - A CLEVER man builds a city, A clever woman lays one low; With all her qualifications, that clever woman Is but an ill-omened bird. A woman with a long tongue Is a flight of Steps leading to calamity; For disorder does not come from heaven, But is brought about by women. * Among those who cannot be trained or taught Are women and eunuchs.
Side 22 - Magnitudes which coincide with one another, that is, which exactly fill the same space, are equal to one another.
Side 419 - ... shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart: were the entirest strangers: nay. in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! Their governors had fallen out: and instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.
Side 419 - is given ; and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses which it must bury and anew shed tears for.
Side 21 - A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another : 16.