"Cm" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... glasses to Mr. Jeffrey Blackmore, and described them thus: 'The spectacles were for constant use and had steel frames of Stopford's pattern with curl sides, the length of the side-bars including the curled ends being 13.3 cm. The bridge was broad with a gold lining-plate, shaped as shown by the enclosed tracing from the diagram on the prescription. Distance between centres ...
— The Mystery of 31 New Inn • R. Austin Freeman
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... 1854). According to modern measurements the solar radiation imparts almost 3 gramme-calories of energy per minute per square centimetre at the distance of the earth, which is about 1.3X106 ergs per sec. per cm.2 The energy in sunlight per cubic cm. just outside the earth's atmosphere is therefore about 4X10-5 ergs; applying the law of inverse squares the value near the sun's surface would be 1.8 ergs. Let E be the effective ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
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... service were, if practicable, to be German subjects. All officers in the service of the empire, relief crews, weapons, ammunition, equipments, or supplies for the imperial navy, were to be carried at twenty per cent under the regular tariff.[CM] ...
— Manual of Ship Subsidies • Edwin M. Bacon
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... strip along Red Sea coast; cooler and wetter in the central highlands (up to 61 cm of rainfall annually); semiarid in western hills and lowlands; rainfall heaviest during June-September ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency
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... vob' q[d] villa de Danecast[r] claudi faciatis heritone et palo sc[d]m q[d] fossatu f[cm] exigit, et una leve bretasca fi faciatis ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 195, July 23, 1853 • Various
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... of platinum foil, 4.5 cm. in diameter, is used for the positive electrode, and a deep platinum dish as the negative electrode.—Vide "Classen's Quantitative Analysis," ...
— Scientific American Suppl. No. 299 • Various
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... m to 2,670 m above sea level); average annual temperature varies with altitude from 23 to 17 degrees centigrade but is generally moderate as the average altitude is about 1,700 m; average annual rainfall is about 150 cm; wet seasons from February to May and September to November, and dry seasons from June to August and December ...
— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government
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... inclined segments. These segments meet in the middle, leaving a diamond-shaped space filled in with longitudinal courses. Like the stairs in the Pammakaristos, this passage is very narrow, some 85 cm., yet the builders thought it necessary to corbel out five courses before venturing to throw a vault ...
— Byzantine Churches in Constantinople - Their History and Architecture • Alexander Van Millingen
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... had never laid eggs or shown any sexual instincts. The only male character which was wanting was that of the spurs. The ovary was represented by a smooth, slightly elevated deep black eminence 1 cm. in length and 1-5 mm. in breadth at its upper end. These authors also mention three ducks in male plumage in which the ovary was similarly atrophied but not pigmented. They regard the condition of the ovary as insufficient to explain the development of the male ...
— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham
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... SOLIPEDS.—The large round-worms or ascarides and the sclerostomes are the most injurious intestinal parasites of solipeds. The A. megalocephala or large round-worm is from 5 to 15 inches (12 to 35 cm.) long. It may be present in the double colon in such large numbers as to form an entangled mass that completely fills a portion of the loop in which it is lodged. It may interfere with digestion by obstructing the passage of alimentary matter, ...
— Common Diseases of Farm Animals • R. A. Craig, D. V. M.
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... be done amounts to an amplification of this equation by the factor 4(π^2)m, and a gathering of the constant product 4(π^2)c under a new symbol, for which we choose the letter f. In this way we arrive at: 4(π^2)mr / t2 4(π^2)cm / r2 and finally: P ... fm / r2 which is the expression of the gravitational pull believed to be exerted by the sun on the various planetary bodies. Nothing can be said against this procedure from the point ...
— Man or Matter • Ernst Lehrs
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... was it so very important that Mr. Mink should drop one of his little footsie-tootsies in that way? Is it the habit up here for these animals to go around cm three legs?" ...
— Canoe Mates in Canada - Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan • St. George Rathborne
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... important feature of the digestive organs relating to this point. The part marked LM shows the muscles of the inner coat of the stomach, which run in one direction, and CM shows the muscles of the outer ...
— The American Woman's Home • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe
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... difficult to decipher, is on the reverse of a drawing at Windsor, Pl. CXXII, which possibly has some connection with it. The drawing is slightly reduced in this reproduction; the original being 25 cm. high by ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci
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... attached to a 105-cm. battery, a young Major von Markel in command, a most charming fellow. I spent all to-day in the advanced observing position with a young subaltern called Grabel, also a nice young fellow. I was in position at 6 a.m., and, as apparently is common here, mist hides everything ...
— The Diary of a U-boat Commander • Anon
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... down to safe limits, and the temperature's down to inactive normal. He and his gang found a big chunk of plutonium, about one-quarter CM, ...
— Day of the Moron • Henry Beam Piper
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