Old-world Questions and New-world AnswersK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1885 - 369 pages |
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... turning his back on the Atlantic slope , he joins the ranks of the great army of civilization which is always on the march to the Far West . His chief halts are made , probably , at Chicago , St. Louis , the City of the Saints , the ...
... turning his back on the Atlantic slope , he joins the ranks of the great army of civilization which is always on the march to the Far West . His chief halts are made , probably , at Chicago , St. Louis , the City of the Saints , the ...
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... turned its attention with advantage to the making of " hoop - skirts . " But when fashion presently decreed the reign of scanty dresses , an industrial earthquake shook the crinoline factories almost to their foundations . Since then ...
... turned its attention with advantage to the making of " hoop - skirts . " But when fashion presently decreed the reign of scanty dresses , an industrial earthquake shook the crinoline factories almost to their foundations . Since then ...
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... turning out chain at the rate of seventy links a minute , no one regarding , while the links grow from yards to miles . Here is a wonder- ful automaton which sticks two thousand pins a minute into pin - papers and , there , another ...
... turning out chain at the rate of seventy links a minute , no one regarding , while the links grow from yards to miles . Here is a wonder- ful automaton which sticks two thousand pins a minute into pin - papers and , there , another ...
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... turned in automatic lathes , the effect of this change in the common practice being to reduce the cost of a clock movement to about two shillings and the price of cased clocks to eight or ten shillings apiece 28 CLOCKLAND .
... turned in automatic lathes , the effect of this change in the common practice being to reduce the cost of a clock movement to about two shillings and the price of cased clocks to eight or ten shillings apiece 28 CLOCKLAND .
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... Turning to the window , profusely dressed in " bangs " and " waterfalls , " I asked pardon if the display of these masterpieces had suggested to a British mind the idea of a hair - cutting saloon within . Softened by my humility , she ...
... Turning to the window , profusely dressed in " bangs " and " waterfalls , " I asked pardon if the display of these masterpieces had suggested to a British mind the idea of a hair - cutting saloon within . Softened by my humility , she ...
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