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... four years . The results include 565 sets of vertical velocity curve observations , each set including velocities taken three times at each foot of depth ; 545 sets of rod float observations , each including six mea- surements of ...
... four years . The results include 565 sets of vertical velocity curve observations , each set including velocities taken three times at each foot of depth ; 545 sets of rod float observations , each including six mea- surements of ...
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... four days past the full . I was at an hotel in London , and on the stroke of three I stole into a vacant room in the third floor , the window of which looked south - east . Here I stood for a full hour looking for the comet , scarcely ...
... four days past the full . I was at an hotel in London , and on the stroke of three I stole into a vacant room in the third floor , the window of which looked south - east . Here I stood for a full hour looking for the comet , scarcely ...
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... four feet long . The rope was fastened to the apex of the A , and lead weights to the lower ends of the side poles . Attached along the cross- bar at intervals of six inches were cords four feet in length , each armed with five or six ...
... four feet long . The rope was fastened to the apex of the A , and lead weights to the lower ends of the side poles . Attached along the cross- bar at intervals of six inches were cords four feet in length , each armed with five or six ...
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... four successive steel hoops , each of 5.55 inches thick , the 10 TONS PER SQ . INCH . TENSION . 20 20 15 10 ท 3 о GIN 22.75 25 20 15 10 5 0 6.IN. 22.75- 5 10 S 5 22.75 C1 5 5 5 10 12 C2 10 TONS PER SQ.INCH . COMPRESSION -TONS PER SQ ...
... four successive steel hoops , each of 5.55 inches thick , the 10 TONS PER SQ . INCH . TENSION . 20 20 15 10 ท 3 о GIN 22.75 25 20 15 10 5 0 6.IN. 22.75- 5 10 S 5 22.75 C1 5 5 5 10 12 C2 10 TONS PER SQ.INCH . COMPRESSION -TONS PER SQ ...
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... four weeks ) . All the twenty arrondissements have been affected , and all the eighty quarters , except the four American and that of St. Fargeau in the west and Salpêtrière and Petit - Montrouge in the south . The seventh arrondis ...
... four weeks ) . All the twenty arrondissements have been affected , and all the eighty quarters , except the four American and that of St. Fargeau in the west and Salpêtrière and Petit - Montrouge in the south . The seventh arrondis ...
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