Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

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Smithsonian Institution, 1912
 

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עמוד 496 - Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel : for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears...
עמוד 405 - My first view of it was about a fortnight subsequent to the period when they had made choice of it, and I arrived there nearly two hours before sunset. Few Pigeons were then to be seen, but a great number of persons, with horses and waggons, guns and ammunition, had already established encampments on the borders.
עמוד 364 - THE prolongation of life: the restitution of youth in some degree : the retardation of age : the curing of diseases counted incurable : the mitigation of pain : more easy and less loathsome purgings : the increasing of strength and activity : the increasing of ability to suffer torture or pain...
עמוד 496 - Thou art a great people and hast great power, thou shalt not have one lot only, but the mountain shall be thine, for it is a wood and thou shalt cut it down. And the outgoings of it shall be thine; for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots and though they be strong.
עמוד 91 - The bureaus of exchange will serve, in an officious capacity, as intermediaries between the learned bodies and literary and scientific societies, etc. of the contracting States for the reception and transmission of their publications. It remains however well understood that, in such case, the duty of the bureaus of exchange will be confined to the free transmission of the works exchanged and that these bureaus will not in any manner take the initiative to bring about the establishment of such relations.
עמוד 496 - So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.) And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
עמוד 496 - And the children of Joseph said. The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron," both they who are of Beth-shean/ and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.
עמוד 198 - Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.
עמוד 185 - To decompose the metals, to re-form them, and to realize the once absurd notion of transformation — these are the problems now given to the chemist for solution.
עמוד 110 - ADVERTISEMENT. The object of the GENERAL APPENDIX to the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution is to furnish brief accounts of scientific discovery in particular directions; reports of investigations made by collaborators of the Institution; and memoirs of a general character or on special topics that are of interest or value to the numerous correspondents of the Institution.

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