| | 102 | Author: | Casson, Herbert N. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The History of the Telephone  | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN that somewhat distant year 1875, when the
telegraph and the Atlantic cable were the
most wonderful things in the world, a tall young
professor of elocution was desperately busy in a
noisy machine-shop that stood in one of the narrow
streets of Boston, not far from Scollay
Square. It was a very hot afternoon in June,
but the young professor had forgotten the heat
and the grime of the workshop. He was wholly
absorbed in the making of a nondescript machine,
a sort of crude harmonica with a clock-spring
reed, a magnet, and a wire. It was a most
absurd toy in appearance. It was unlike any
other thing that had ever been made in any country.
The young professor had been toiling over
it for three years and it had constantly baffled
him, until, on this hot afternoon in June, 1875,
he heard an almost inaudible sound — a faint
twang — come from the
machine itself. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 104 | Author: | Cather, Willa Sibert | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Ardessa | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE grand-mannered old man who sat at a desk in the
reception-room of "The Outcry" offices to receive visitors and
incidentally to keep the time-book of the employees, looked up as
Miss Devine entered at ten minutes past ten and condescendingly
wished him good morning. He bowed profoundly as she minced
past his desk, and with an indifferent air took her course down the
corridor that led to the editorial offices. Mechanically he opened
the flat, black book at his elbow and placed his finger on D, running
his eye along the line of figures after the name Devine. "It's
banker's hours she keeps, indeed," he muttered. What was the use
of entering so capricious a record? Nevertheless, with his usual
preliminary flourish he wrote 10:10 under this, the fourth day of
May. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 106 | Author: | Christie, Agatha | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Mysterious Affair at Styles | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE intense interest aroused in the public by what was
known at the time as "The Styles Case'' has now somewhat
subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world-wide notoriety
which attended it, I have been asked, both by my friend
Poirot and the family themselves, to write an account of the
whole story. This, we trust, will effectually silence the
sensational rumours which still persist. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 107 | Author: | Cooke, Josiah Parsons | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Religion and Chemistry | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE time has been when the Christian Church
was an active antagonist of physical science; when
the whole hierarchy of Rome united to condemn its
results and to resist its progress; when the immediate
reward of great discoveries was obloquy and
persecution. But all this has passed. The age of
dogmatism has gone, and an age of general scepticism
has succeeded. The power of traditional authority
has given place to the power of ideas, and
physical science, which before hardly dared to assert
its birthright, and could even be forced to recant, on
its knees, its demonstrated truths, has now become
one of the rulers of society. By its rapid growth,
by its conquests over brute matter, and by its
wonderful revelations, it has deservedly gained the
highest respect of man, while by multiplying and
diffusing the comforts of life it has become his
acknowledged friend. Every effort is now made to
further its progress. Its great discoveries win the
applause of nations, and its fortunate students are
remembered when the princes and nobles of the
earth are forgotten. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 112 | Author: | Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Manacled | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN the First Act there had been a farm scene, wherein real horses
had drunk real water out of real buckets, afterward dragging a real
waggon off stage, L. The audience was consumed with admiration
of this play, and the great Theatre Nouveau rang to its roof with the
crowd's plaudits. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 114 | Author: | Dana, Marvin | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Within the Law | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The lids of the girl's eyes lifted slowly, and she
stared at the panel of light in the wall. Just at the
outset, the act of seeing made not the least impression
on her numbed brain. For a long time she continued
to regard the dim illumination in the wall with the same
passive fixity of gaze. Apathy still lay upon her crushed
spirit. In a vague way, she realized her own inertness,
and rested in it gratefully, subtly fearful lest she again
arouse to the full horror of her plight. In a curious
subconscious fashion, she was striving to hold on to this
deadness of sensation, thus to win a little respite from
the torture that had exhausted her soul. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 117 | Author: | Der Ling, Princess | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Two Years in the Forbidden City | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | MY father and mother, Lord and Lady Yü
Keng, and family, together with our suite consisting
of the First Secretary, Second Secretary,
Naval and Military Attachés, Chancellors, their
families, servants, etc., — altogether fifty-five
people, — arrived in Shanghai on January 2, 1903, on
the S.S. "Annam'' from Paris, where for four
years my father had been Chinese Minister.
Our arrival was anything but pleasant, as the
rain came down in torrents, and we had the
greatest difficulty getting our numerous retinue
landed and safely housed, not to mention the
tons of baggage that had to be looked after.
We had found from previous experience that
none of our Legation people or servants could
be depended upon to do anything when travelling,
in consequence of which the entire charge
devolved upon my mother, who was without
doubt the genius of the party in arranging
matters and straightening out difficulties. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 118 | Author: | Doyle, Arthur Conan | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The White Company | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest
might be heard its musical clangor and swell, Peat-cutters on Blackdown
and fishers upon the Exe heard the distant throbbing rising and falling
upon the sultry summer air. It was a common sound in those parts—as
common as the chatter of the jays and the booming of the bittern. Yet
the fishers and the peasants raised their heads and looked questions at
each other, for the angelus had already gone and vespers was still far
off. Why should the great bell of Beaulieu toll when the shadows were
neither short nor long? | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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