A new microscope with a zoom lens system seems to be a step forward for the application of the metallurgical microscope to microfractography.

From 1032 Provence had been a margravate of the Holy Roman Empire in the imperial Kingdom of Burgundy.

There were a couple of forms, notched and cut and inked all over; a small deal desk perched on four legs, at which no doubt the master sat; a few dog's-eared books upon a high shelf; and beside them a motley collection of peg-tops, balls, kites, fishing-lines, marbles, half-eaten apples, and other confiscated property of idle urchins.

His tall, gaunt, stringy figure is insensible to fatigue, and his dry, half-sarcastic, and often wholly unsympathetic manner is uninfluenced by any change in his surroundings.