Scribner's Magazine ..., Том 54C. Scribner's sons, 1913 |
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... taken in time of peace , by the construction of fortifications and the preparation of other military defences , to make that control effective in the emergency of war . On the other hand , the establishment of such complete American ...
... taken in time of peace , by the construction of fortifications and the preparation of other military defences , to make that control effective in the emergency of war . On the other hand , the establishment of such complete American ...
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... taken from the Cut and transported about thirty miles , is known as the Gatun Dam . A mountain had to be moved , not by faith , but by dynamite , steam - shovels , and railway trains , and set up anew thirty miles away . It was placed ...
... taken from the Cut and transported about thirty miles , is known as the Gatun Dam . A mountain had to be moved , not by faith , but by dynamite , steam - shovels , and railway trains , and set up anew thirty miles away . It was placed ...
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... taken against cavings - in , it would only be for the small extent of about 1 kilometer ( 0.62 mile ) where the slope of the clay is toward the cut . " Professor William H. Burr , who was a member of the International Board of ...
... taken against cavings - in , it would only be for the small extent of about 1 kilometer ( 0.62 mile ) where the slope of the clay is toward the cut . " Professor William H. Burr , who was a member of the International Board of ...
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... taken into account . Colonel Gail- lard , the division engineer in charge of the work in Culebra Cut , estimates the amount of railway track that has been destroyed by them , within 8.8 miles of the Cut , at fully 200 miles , and that ...
... taken into account . Colonel Gail- lard , the division engineer in charge of the work in Culebra Cut , estimates the amount of railway track that has been destroyed by them , within 8.8 miles of the Cut , at fully 200 miles , and that ...
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... taken in its making . That it will hold water was dem- onstrated during the wet season of 1912 , when the lake behind it rose to a level of fifty - seven feet , or with- in thirty feet of the maxi- mum to be attained , and there was no ...
... taken in its making . That it will hold water was dem- onstrated during the wet season of 1912 , when the lake behind it rose to a level of fifty - seven feet , or with- in thirty feet of the maxi- mum to be attained , and there was no ...
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Сторінка 318 - ... borne the heat and burden of the war, and who can have in reality very few hardships to complain of; and when we at the same time recollect, that those soldiers, who have lately been furloughed from this army, are the veterans who have patiently endured hunger, nakedness, and cold, who have suffered and bled without a murmur, and who, with perfect good order, have retired to their homes without a settlement of their accounts, or a farthing of money in their pockets...
Сторінка 323 - I told him that I was really a stranger to the whole subject ; that, not having yet informed myself of the system of finance adopted, I knew not how far this was a necessary sequence ; that, undoubtedly, if its rejection endangered a dissolution of our Union at this incipient stage, I should deem that the most unfortunate of all consequences, to avert which all partial and temporary evils should be yielded.
Сторінка 323 - I proposed to him, however, to dine with me the next day, and I would invite another friend or two, bring them into conference together, and I thought it impossible that reasonable men, consulting together coolly, could fail, by some mutual sacrifices of opinion, to form a compromise which was to save the Union. The discussion took place. I could take no part in it but an exhortatory one, because I was a stranger to the circumstances which should govern it.
Сторінка 3 - The policy of this country is a canal under American control. The United States cannot consent to the surrender of this control to any European power, or to any combination of European powers.
Сторінка 318 - While I suffer the most poignant distress in observing that a handful of men, contemptible in numbers, and equally so in point of service, (if the veteran troops from the southward have not been seduced by their example,) and who are not worthy to be called soldiers...
Сторінка 323 - ... him; and that, the question having been lost by a small majority only, it was probable that an appeal from me to the judgment and discretion of some of my friends might effect a change in the vote, and the machine of government, now suspended, might be again set into motion.
Сторінка 108 - I HAD been in and out of Constantinople a good many years before I even heard of the Sacred Caravan. The first I heard of it then was on the Bridge one day, when I became aware of a drum beating out a curious slow rhythm: one, two, three, four, five, six; one, two, three, Jour, five, six.
Сторінка 323 - But it was observed, that this pill would be peculiarly bitter to the southern States, and that some concomitant measure should be adopted, to sweeten it a little to them. There had...
Сторінка 3 - An interoceanic canal across the American Isthmus will essentially change the geographical relations between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, and between the United States and the rest of the world.
Сторінка 15 - Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman.