College Readings in English ProseFrank William Scott, Jacob Zeitlin |
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... machine - like rapidity and mathematical accuracy a cell so uniform in size that " at the time when the decimal system was established , and a fixed measure sought in nature as a starting - point and an incontestable standard , it was ...
... machine - like rapidity and mathematical accuracy a cell so uniform in size that " at the time when the decimal system was established , and a fixed measure sought in nature as a starting - point and an incontestable standard , it was ...
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... machine . Of the two airplanes considered above , the larger weighs sixty - four times as much as the smaller but needs one hundred and twenty - eight times its horsepower to keep up . Applying the same principles to the birds , we find ...
... machine . Of the two airplanes considered above , the larger weighs sixty - four times as much as the smaller but needs one hundred and twenty - eight times its horsepower to keep up . Applying the same principles to the birds , we find ...
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... machine until he had learned to use it for instead of against himself . We , having already so much power that we are in danger of destroying ourselves , think of nothing except how to make it greater . We can go anywhere we like and ...
... machine until he had learned to use it for instead of against himself . We , having already so much power that we are in danger of destroying ourselves , think of nothing except how to make it greater . We can go anywhere we like and ...
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... machine at the same time that he puts new men in charge of it . The improvement which comes perhaps solely from the change of men is then attrib- uted primarily to the change in form . That this is a fairly correct description of what ...
... machine at the same time that he puts new men in charge of it . The improvement which comes perhaps solely from the change of men is then attrib- uted primarily to the change in form . That this is a fairly correct description of what ...
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... machine which can be set in motion by the simple movement of a few levers , but which can be adjusted only by one acquainted with its entire mechanism . No person of inadequate instruction is permitted to interfere with such a mechanism ...
... machine which can be set in motion by the simple movement of a few levers , but which can be adjusted only by one acquainted with its entire mechanism . No person of inadequate instruction is permitted to interfere with such a mechanism ...
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