Scribner's Magazine ..., Том 54C. Scribner's sons, 1913 |
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... walls which hold the bridge in place are the Gatun Dam and elevator gates at the Atlantic end and the dam and elevator gates at Pedro Miguel at the Pacific end . In constructing the bridge and securing a level for its channel it was ...
... walls which hold the bridge in place are the Gatun Dam and elevator gates at the Atlantic end and the dam and elevator gates at Pedro Miguel at the Pacific end . In constructing the bridge and securing a level for its channel it was ...
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... walls . season , and to resume movement in the succeeding wet season . On October 4 , 1907 , after a period of very heavy rains , it started afresh in the night . Without warning , it shot almost completely across the canal prism ...
... walls . season , and to resume movement in the succeeding wet season . On October 4 , 1907 , after a period of very heavy rains , it started afresh in the night . Without warning , it shot almost completely across the canal prism ...
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... walls or sections of earth and rock brought from Culebra Cut . It contains about 21,000 , - 000 cubic yards of material , about equally divided be- tween core and walls . It is not only as solid as the everlasting hills , but more ...
... walls or sections of earth and rock brought from Culebra Cut . It contains about 21,000 , - 000 cubic yards of material , about equally divided be- tween core and walls . It is not only as solid as the everlasting hills , but more ...
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... wall of the spillway there will be a passage for the transmission of water from the lake to turbines for the generation of electricity with which to operate the lock machinery , the ma- chine - shops , dry - dock , coal - handling plant ...
... wall of the spillway there will be a passage for the transmission of water from the lake to turbines for the generation of electricity with which to operate the lock machinery , the ma- chine - shops , dry - dock , coal - handling plant ...
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... wall is 60 feet wide with vertical walls from base to summit , and the side walls taper from 45 to 50 feet at the base to 8 feet at the top . The upper half of the centre wall contains three sto- ries of tunnels and galleries , one at ...
... wall is 60 feet wide with vertical walls from base to summit , and the side walls taper from 45 to 50 feet at the base to 8 feet at the top . The upper half of the centre wall contains three sto- ries of tunnels and galleries , one at ...
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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.