Reports Adopted by the Roadmasters Association of America: And Papers Accepted at the Conventions from 1883 to 1893, Inclusive, Volumes 1-8List of memberrs in 12th- |
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... passing from the oak on to the cedar and up on to the oak again ; you will feel it in the motion of the car , and I think it is apt to bend the rail , too , because the oak is so much more solid than the cedar . MR . PRESTON : When it ...
... passing from the oak on to the cedar and up on to the oak again ; you will feel it in the motion of the car , and I think it is apt to bend the rail , too , because the oak is so much more solid than the cedar . MR . PRESTON : When it ...
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... passing over your track , ballasted in any manner , the best track you have , don't you find , if stand- ing and looking at it , that the rail is all the time in a light move ? MR . RAFFERTY : Yes , that is so . THE PRESIDENT : Will not ...
... passing over your track , ballasted in any manner , the best track you have , don't you find , if stand- ing and looking at it , that the rail is all the time in a light move ? MR . RAFFERTY : Yes , that is so . THE PRESIDENT : Will not ...
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... pass thereon . Nor must it lag in the line of improvement . The strap iron must needs vanish before the chair rail , and the latter must promptly yield to the fish plate . Iron must give way to steel , and in the competition of the busy ...
... pass thereon . Nor must it lag in the line of improvement . The strap iron must needs vanish before the chair rail , and the latter must promptly yield to the fish plate . Iron must give way to steel , and in the competition of the busy ...
Page 69
... passes muster , and commands its price . Why not with men ? Which can do the most and best work in the least time and with the least means ? The answer to this should be the touchstone that opens or shuts the door to preferred place ...
... passes muster , and commands its price . Why not with men ? Which can do the most and best work in the least time and with the least means ? The answer to this should be the touchstone that opens or shuts the door to preferred place ...
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... passing through it . They are held down to it by the nuts and the two ends of the U Bolt passing up vertically through it and through the corners of the rail bases . This U Bolt is one inch in diameter . Under the nut , on each side ...
... passing through it . They are held down to it by the nuts and the two ends of the U Bolt passing up vertically through it and through the corners of the rail bases . This U Bolt is one inch in diameter . Under the nut , on each side ...
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Page 73 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved by concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treason, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.
Page 73 - Jose, duly seconded, it was voted that the Report of the Committee on the Revision of the Constitution and...
Page 24 - The President : You have heard the report of the Committee. What is the pleasure of the Association in reference to it.
Page 52 - ... and be it further Resolved, That the Secretary of this Association be instructed to send a copy of these resolutions to the President of the United States...
Page 52 - Industry," which was discussed by Messrs. Morrison, Morris, De Camp, Coggeshall, and Whipple ; and a resolution based upon the paper was adopted, to the effect that a committee of five be appointed by the president to report at the next...
Page 131 - The next thing in order is the report of the Committee on Resolutions.
Page 132 - Davis then introduced the following resolution : "Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed by the President...