Word: makers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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LOST.- A brown fall overcoat, maker's name, Lindsay, Paris. Please return to Little...
...again, and a third wishes to be a clerk on a steamboat. At least a dozen are ready to be hotel clerks, or even waiters if no better opening offers. Among the many is one skilled in wood carving and quick in using the tools of the box maker. There are a number who wish places in counting-rooms, banks, offices, or as salesmen in branch stores at popular seashore resorts. The most numerous body are applicants for positions as tutors, either of boys fitting for college or of children whose parents wish them to learn to love science...
...cases of fractures, dislocating, and bandaging." The patient suffers as much in accidents from the sympathy and officiousness of the by-standers, as he does from the injury itself. We should do too little rather than too much. If we drop a watch, we take it to the watch-maker for repair, and to him alone. So in case of bodily injuries, we should rely on the surgeon alone...
...grinding and the polishing are done as follows: In the first place the curves of the lens are determined by experiments with smaller models, aided, of course, by the maker's long experience. Then an iron disk, large enough to-cover the glass, is made into a concave shape exactly corresponding to the desired convexity of the lens, thus, in reality forming a species of mould. This disk, which by the way is called the "tool," is placed on the glass, and by a simple mechanical device is made to rotate upon it. When the grinding is completed...
...number. Although an optimist might quarrel with many of the conclusions drawn as representing Kayyam in too dark a light, the conclusions are by no means fanciful, and are upon their face the result of deep study and clear ideas. It is a question, however, whether the Tent-maker of Naishapur can be so systematically interpreted throughout. Is it true that a thread of despair runs through the mystic lines of Omar and darkens all their thought? One long magazine article has been written upon the concluding line alone of the poem to disprove this view. But the unity...