Then weren't we proud ! Our copy used to be so clean and beautiful that we hung it up on exhibition ; and our manager used to come and gaze at it silently, with a puzzled expression. Then he would depart, shaking his head in a troubled sort of way. He... The Story of Thomas A. Edison - Page 51by Inez Nellie Canfield McFee - 1922 - 182 pagesFull view - About this book
| Literature - 1890 - 1016 pages
...rate of forty words a minute, and we would grind them out of the other at the rate of twenty- five. Then weren't we proud ! Our copy used to be so clean...and gaze at it silently, with a puzzled expression. Then he would depart, shaking his head in a troubled sort of way. He could not understand it; neither... | |
| George Iles - 1906 - 594 pages
...words a minute, and we would grind them out of the other at the rate of twenty-five. Then were n't we proud! Our copy used to be so clean and beautiful...and gaze at it silently, with a puzzled expression. Then he would depart, shaking his head in a troubled sort of way. He could not understand it; neither... | |
| George Iles - Inventions - 1906 - 586 pages
...words a minute, and we would grind them out of the other at the rate of twenty-five. Then were n't we proud ! Our copy used to be so clean and beautiful...and gaze at it silently, with 'a puzzled expression. Then he would depart, shaking his head in a troubled sort of way. He could not understand it ; neither... | |
| Rupert Sargent Holland - Inventions - 1911 - 344 pages
...transmitted to us through the other instrument at any desired rate of speed. They would come in on one instrument at the rate of forty words a minute,...at the rate of twenty-five. Then weren't we proud 1 Our copy used to be so clean and beautiful that we hung it up on exhibition ; and our manager used... | |
| Literature - 1890 - 998 pages
...in on one instrument at the rate of forty words a minute, and we would grind them out of the other at the rate of twenty-five. Then weren't we proud ! Our copy used to he so clean and beautiful that we hung it up on exhibition ; and our manager used to come and gaze... | |
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