Word: coal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...formal education was in fragments, which made up altogether less than a year's schooling. The Bible, however, Aesop's Fables, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Weems's Life of Washington, and a history of the United States, for reading; a wooden fire shovel scraped clean and a coal for writing materials, enabled his eager intelligence to make a better start than many a more favored boy achieves in the best schools. And after a somewhat florid period of youth, his style of writing and speaking became extraordinarily simple and impressive. Lincoln's practice as a country lawyer...
...economically.- (a) Waste capital and labor: Cairnes, Leading Principles, Pt. III, ch. 4, pp. 394 sq.- (1) Prevent best utilization of natural resources.- (b) Hurt manufacturers by raising the price of raw materials: Ibid. p. 402; Petition of Iron and Steel Industries for free iron ore and free coal; N. Am. Rev. Vol. 159. pp. 650, 651.- (c) Injure the 'morale of industry': Cairnes, pp. 402, 403, Pol. Sci. Q. VI. pp. 611, 612.- (1) "Cause manufacturers to rely on legislation more than on their own economy and skill."- (d) Foster trusts and monopolies.- (e) Economists unanimously condemn them: Lalor...
Geological Conference. Papers: The Fedorow Universal Microscope Table, Professor Wolff; Stratigraphic Succession of the Rhode Island Coal Measures, Mr. J. B. Woodworth. Mineralogical lecture-room, University Museum...
Geological Conference. Papers: The Fedorow Universal Microscope Table, Professor Wolff; Stratigraphic Succession of the Rhode Island Coal Measures, Mr. J. B. Woodworth. Mineralogical lecture-room, University Museum...
...early times, our manufacturing towns were situated near water power. Thus many of our towns owe their positions to their nearness to waterfalls. Later with the introduction of cheap transportation and the displacement of water power by coal, manufacturing industries moved to the coal regions or commercial centers...