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...struggle going on in the pumphouse, began dropping in to watch. Within a week bets were being laid, with the snake a heavy favorite. Then the watchers noticed a curious thing. The spider, always working out of the snake's reach, was pulling the web tighter and, fraction by fraction of an inch, the snake was being lifted from the floor...
...large salary. Hitherto the Institute has played a passive role, gathering statis tics, urging standardized practices. Twice yearly its members convene to hear papers and, until his death, the scoldings (for price-cutting) of U. S. Steel's Judge Elbert Henry Gary. But with mills running at a fraction of capacity, steel companies have fought like jackals for what busi ness there was. Price-cutting, price-shading, concessions to favored customers, indirect rebates have demoralized the trade. Though steelmen testily deny that they are enthroning a "tsar," President Lament's chief job will be to whip steel companies...
...traffic which the highways could bear, even if no passenger traffic were allowed on them, would be an inconsiderable fraction of the whole now being taken care of by the railroads...
...have more course theses and less hour examinations? The student has an opportunity in the thesis to develop that particular fraction of a course which interests him; in the hour examination he has to answer, with gritted teeth, detailed, and often stupid, questions which he has learned the day before and forgets on the next. From the emphasis placed on these tests rather than the theses, small wonder that epithets sometimes fly freely...
...chief technical difficulties were: to dry four layers of ink in a fraction of a second; to find color pigments cheap enough to be practicable; to correct "register" at high speed. While Mr. Wood experimented, Col. McCormick was not idle. In an effort to make his pressmen color-conscious he had them experiment with the old fashioned makeready color processes until they could turn out fairly presentable two-and three-color advertisements. Last week's crude red frontpage cartoon was the last step in the Tribune's color education before graduating to the complicated four-color Wood presses...