The Technical World Magazine, Volume 17Technical World Company, 1912 |
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... built the Copper River and Northwestern Railway in Alaska , under date of May 14 , 1910 , we read the following entry : " The falsework under the third span of the bridge was moved out fif- teen inches by the ice and had to be put back ...
... built the Copper River and Northwestern Railway in Alaska , under date of May 14 , 1910 , we read the following entry : " The falsework under the third span of the bridge was moved out fif- teen inches by the ice and had to be put back ...
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... built across the river where it makes a double turn between the great living glaciers , Miles and Childs . Both present three - hundred - foot cliff - like faces to the water for three miles and if it were not for the turn between them ...
... built across the river where it makes a double turn between the great living glaciers , Miles and Childs . Both present three - hundred - foot cliff - like faces to the water for three miles and if it were not for the turn between them ...
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... built in six days and the giant third , of 450 feet , in spite of extraordinary difficulties , in an even ten days . CHITINA VALDEZ MILES ti CORDO BERING GLACIER CHILKAT ENNICOT DOMINION CAPE SUCKLING ELIAS RANG OF CANADA BERING SEA ...
... built in six days and the giant third , of 450 feet , in spite of extraordinary difficulties , in an even ten days . CHITINA VALDEZ MILES ti CORDO BERING GLACIER CHILKAT ENNICOT DOMINION CAPE SUCKLING ELIAS RANG OF CANADA BERING SEA ...
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... built the White Pass and Yukon railway , made the perilous journey up the valley on foot and he declared that money and Mr. Hawkins could build a railroad on LINING SUPPLIES UP THE LOWER END OF THE COPPER RIVER AHEAD OF TRACK LAYING ...
... built the White Pass and Yukon railway , made the perilous journey up the valley on foot and he declared that money and Mr. Hawkins could build a railroad on LINING SUPPLIES UP THE LOWER END OF THE COPPER RIVER AHEAD OF TRACK LAYING ...
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... built and they were ferried over the river channels , then dragged over the quick- sands by hand - twenty men or more to one horse . Sometimes the animal could walk a little way but progress generally was at the rate of about a mile an ...
... built and they were ferried over the river channels , then dragged over the quick- sands by hand - twenty men or more to one horse . Sometimes the animal could walk a little way but progress generally was at the rate of about a mile an ...
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Page 440 - I do the very best I know how — the very best I can ; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Page 198 - Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing: To his music plants and flowers Ever sprung ; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.
Page 191 - SPRING, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing: Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo! The palm and may make country houses gay, Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day, And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay: Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
Page 328 - No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you, that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Page 157 - Go to your work and be strong, halting not in your ways, Baulking the end half-won for an instant dole of praise. Stand to your work and be wise — certain of sword and pen, Who are neither children nor Gods, but men in a world of men ! THE FIRST CHANTEY.
Page 191 - Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king ; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring. Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing. Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we. to-witta-woo ! The palm and May make country houses gay.
Page 337 - What are they moving the church for?" "Well, stranger, I'm the mayor of these diggin's, an' I'm fer law enforcement. We've got an ordinance what says no saloon shall be nearer than three hundred feet from a church. I give "em three days to move the church.
Page 454 - In such declarations all of the food substances used for coating should be mentioned. Any coloring matter or other substances that may be employed to change the tint of the rice should be declared on the label. The question of the wholesomeness of paraffin, talc, or other non-food substances used is to be construed in such a way as to protect the health of those most susceptible to their influences. Rice is a diet often prescribed for those suffering from impaired digestion. The use of paraffin in...
Page 213 - A colored man was brought before a police judge charged with stealing chickens. He pleaded guilty and received sentence, when the judge asked how it was he managed to lift those chickens right under the window of the owner's house when there was a dog in the yard. "Hit wouldn't be no use, jedge." said the man, "to try to 'splain dis thing to yo'. Ef you was to try it you like as not would get yer hide full of shot an get no chickens, nuther.
Page 99 - A somewhat unpatriotic little son of Italy, twelve years old, came to his teacher in the public school and asked if he could not have his name changed. "Why do you wish to change your name?" the teacher asked. "I want to be an American. I live in America now. I no longer want to be a Dago." "What American name would you like to have?" "I have it here," he said, handing the teacher a dirty scrap of paper on which was written — Patrick Dennis McCarty.