 day and night, sleeping but three or four hours out of the twenty-four, and eating generally but once a day, as I knew I must get a machine made for forty dollars, or not get it at all. The machine was completed the night of the eleventh day from the...  Reports and Awards ... - Page 13by United States. Centennial Commission - 1877Full view - About this book
 | American essays - 1867 - 782 pages
...dollars for the purpose ; upon which Mr. Singer flew at t!:a work like a tiger. " I worked," he says, " day and night, sleeping but three or four hours out...eating generally but once a day, as I knew I must get a machine made for forty dollars, or not get it at all. The machine was completed the night of... | |
 | American essays - 1867 - 782 pages
...dollars for the purpose ; upon which Mr. Singer flew at the work like a tiger. " I worked/' he says, " day and night, sleeping but three or four hours out...eating generally but once a day, as I knew I must get a machine made for forty dollars, or not get it at all. The machine was completed the night of... | |
 | James Parton - Civilization - 1871 - 730 pages
...dollars for the purpose ; upon which Mr. Singer flew at the work like a tiger. "I worked," he says, "day and night, sleeping but three or four hours out...eating generally but once a day, as I knew I must get a machine made for forty dollars, or not get it at all. The machine was completed the night of... | |
 | R. M. DEVENS - 1876 - 1014 pages
...Mr. Zieber, applied himself unremittingly to the accomplishment of his task. He worked, as he states, to the bed, when Dr. Craik asked him if he could sit...the bed. He held out his hand, and I 12 raised hi knowing that he must get a machine made for forty dollars, or not get it at all. The machine was completed... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - United States - 1879 - 680 pages
...Mr. Zieber, applied himself unremittingly to the accomplishment of his task. He worked, as he states, day and night, sleeping but three or four hours out...twenty-four, and eating generally but once a day, knowing that he must get a machine made for forty dollars, or not get it at all. The mncliine was completed... | |
 | James Parton - Biography - 1883 - 860 pages
...dollars for the purpose ; upon which Mr. Singer flew at the work like a tiger. "I worked," he says, "day and night, sleeping but three or four hours out...eating generally but once a day, as I knew I must get a machine made for forty dollars, or not get it at all. The machine was completod the night of... | |
 | Franc Bangs Wilkie - Inventions - 1883 - 700 pages
...advance him fifty dollars, upon which he " flew at the work like a tiger." " I worked," he says, " day and night, sleeping but three or four hours out...eating generally but once a day, as I knew I must get a machine made for forty dollars, or not get it at all. The machine was completed the night of... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - Industries - 1883 - 756 pages
...Zieber, applied himself unremittingly to the accomplishment of his task. He •worked, as he states, day and night, sleeping but three or four hours out...twenty-four, and eating generally but once a day, knowing that he must get a machine made for forty dollars, or not get it at all. The machine was completed... | |
 | Harry A. Lewis - Success - 1887 - 534 pages
...in the Howe vs. Singer suits, the story of this wonderful man runs something like this : " I worked day and night, sleeping but three or four hours out...eating generally but once a day, as I knew I must get a machine made for forty dollars or not get it at all. The machine was completed the night of the... | |
 | Harry A. Lewis - Success - 1887 - 534 pages
...in the Howe vs. Singer suits, the story of this wonderful man runs something like this r " I worked day and night, sleeping but three or four hours out...twenty-four, and eating generally but once a day, as I knew 1 must get a machine made for forty dollars or not get it at all. The machine was completed the night... | |
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