The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 63Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1902 - American literature |
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Page 66
... miles ) an hour . What this means may be imagined when it is remembered that a wind of fifty kilometers an hour is called a storm . At the outset , a word should be allowed the inventor concerning two very different factors of his ...
... miles ) an hour . What this means may be imagined when it is remembered that a wind of fifty kilometers an hour is called a storm . At the outset , a word should be allowed the inventor concerning two very different factors of his ...
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... miles of private railroads . It was on these railroads that the young Santos - Dumont , before he was twelve years of age , drove locomotive - engines for his pleasure , and developed the taste for mechanics and invention which saved ...
... miles of private railroads . It was on these railroads that the young Santos - Dumont , before he was twelve years of age , drove locomotive - engines for his pleasure , and developed the taste for mechanics and invention which saved ...
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... miles an hour , I am in the position of a river - steamboat captain whose propeller is driving him up or down the river at the rate of thirty miles an hour . Suppose the current to be ten miles an hour . When he goes up - stream he will ...
... miles an hour , I am in the position of a river - steamboat captain whose propeller is driving him up or down the river at the rate of thirty miles an hour . Suppose the current to be ten miles an hour . When he goes up - stream he will ...
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... mile whirled by ; the gap began to close . The pony had over - spurted at the start , but the Storbuk was warming to his ... miles of deep snow in seven hours , to carry brandy , food , and promise of speedy aid . When over - venturesome ...
... mile whirled by ; the gap began to close . The pony had over - spurted at the start , but the Storbuk was warming to his ... miles of deep snow in seven hours , to carry brandy , food , and promise of speedy aid . When over - venturesome ...
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... miles of " trace " across Kentucky . Of this whole party two hundred and twenty - six got through alive . The boat party had many hundreds of miles of unknown and dangerous waters to travel , and the journey took them three months , a ...
... miles of " trace " across Kentucky . Of this whole party two hundred and twenty - six got through alive . The boat party had many hundreds of miles of unknown and dangerous waters to travel , and the journey took them three months , a ...
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