Word: cogs
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...true that if specialization is not modulated by the philosophy of business, or science, or whatever the field may be, the exponent may be a useless cog, or even dangerous as a theoretical bigot. This was the blight, in the form of a superiority complex, to which Dr. Butler ascribes the death of interest in the classics. No doubt a society of the widely informed, not soporific with erudition, would be the cultural utopia. But as long as civilization goes ploughing ahead in the present direction, moles seem indispensable as ground breakers. There is no reason for salvaging persons...
...MacPhail, captain of this year's team and for three years pilot of Big Green elevens. In addition to being one of the most resourceful and level headed field generals in the East, he is an important cog in the execution of lateral and forward passes. Although he seldom carries the ball he has amply demonstrated in the past his ground gaining ability...
...into politics and, as President Coolidge once said, has office holding for his hobby, he had better go to the nearest street corner in the week before election day and make the acquaintance of his ward boss and take his orders from him. He will then be a small cog in the machine of his district and state and depending on his ability to deliver the votes and his knowledge of his bailiwick will be promoted...
...Frederick F. Fuller, an inventor whose brain deals weirdly and intelligently with interlocking cog wheels, made a contract with the National Cash Register Co. For his $5,000 yearly salary he was to give to the company all inventions he developed during that year and during the year thereafter. At the end of the contract year he wanted his agreement renewed. An N. C. R. employing official refused but let him continue on the payroll under an assignment of invention rights annexed to, but not executed with, the 1909 agreement. A cash consideration was not made explicit. This arrangement endured...
...Ritty, a Dayton, Ohio, saloonkeeper. He was bothered by his bartenders' sticky fingers lifting undue moneys from the till. On a trip to the old country he nosed around the ship's boiler room, noted the indicator that counted the propeller revolutions, bethought him of a machine full of cog wheels which his barkeeps would operate every time they slid a seidel of Extra Pale across the mahogany. His machine, when a proper key was depressed, clanged a bell and punched a hole in a roll of paper. On good business days the roll might run to a scroll...