Stone & Webster Journal, Volume 24Stone & Webster, 1919 - Electrical engineering |
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... cent , and get a vast amount . It is all in the capacity , and one does not have the capacity for pleasure without effort . If one is not born with it he may possibly be able to cultivate it , but it is uphill work . If one is born with ...
... cent , and get a vast amount . It is all in the capacity , and one does not have the capacity for pleasure without effort . If one is not born with it he may possibly be able to cultivate it , but it is uphill work . If one is born with ...
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... cent and the saving in power and other expenses about 60 per cent , so that by merely changing from the old cars you can bring about a saving of 40 per cent of that which would be obtained by buying light - weight cars . In the use of ...
... cent and the saving in power and other expenses about 60 per cent , so that by merely changing from the old cars you can bring about a saving of 40 per cent of that which would be obtained by buying light - weight cars . In the use of ...
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... cent in power station capacity ; in other words , we are giving increased headway and we have , only 70 per cent of the peak load we had before with a less num- ber of heavy cars ; or if you put it another way , having made this change ...
... cent in power station capacity ; in other words , we are giving increased headway and we have , only 70 per cent of the peak load we had before with a less num- ber of heavy cars ; or if you put it another way , having made this change ...
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... cent and the increase in receipts , 29 per cent . In Tacoma we have several lines . The increase in car mileage on one line has been about 20 per cent and the increase in receipts , 25 per cent ; the increase on another is in car ...
... cent and the increase in receipts , 29 per cent . In Tacoma we have several lines . The increase in car mileage on one line has been about 20 per cent and the increase in receipts , 25 per cent ; the increase on another is in car ...
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... cent ; anyway , from five to ten per cent . Accidents have decreased quite materially in practice . The accidents which we have eliminated are what we would call minor accidents - step accidents . The automatic feature of the car ...
... cent ; anyway , from five to ten per cent . Accidents have decreased quite materially in practice . The accidents which we have eliminated are what we would call minor accidents - step accidents . The automatic feature of the car ...
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Page 3 - The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their meat from God. The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, And lay them down in their dens. Man goeth forth unto his work And to his labour until the evening.
Page 164 - Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth ; on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home. Taxes on the raw material ; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man.
Page 164 - TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon every thing which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste — taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion — taxes on every thing on earth, and the waters under the earth...
Page 82 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 165 - His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he...
Page 351 - Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose.
Page 165 - Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Page 505 - An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military establishment of the United States", approved May 18, 1917, or any.
Page 164 - The school-boy whips his taxed top — the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; — and the dying Englishman pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent.
Page 351 - They learned that reason only perceives that which it produces after its own design; that it must not be content to follow, as it were, in the leading-strings of nature, but must proceed in advance with principles of judgment according to unvarying laws, and compel nature to reply to its questions.