A Civil Service Manual, Τόμος 2Home correspondence school, 1911 |
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Σελίδα 62 - POVERTY is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a Man to be drowned who was worth the saving.
Σελίδα 64 - An Act for the better securing the Liberty of the Subject, and for Prevention of Imprisonments beyond the Seas.
Σελίδα 118 - ... reproducing it accurately in every particular, including punctuation and other marks, and preserving all spaces between lines and between words, figures, and characters, and the relative positions of the lines on the sheet. The copy furnished to the competitor is a photolithograph of a sheet which has been typewritten and so prepared that it may be reproduced on -any style of typewriting machine.
Σελίδα 106 - Mexico, the end may be perhaps better attained than at Panama. All this is reserved for the future and for an enterprising spirit. So much, however, is certain, that if they succeed in cutting such a canal that ships of any burden and size can be navigated through it from the Mexican Gulf to the Pacific Ocean, innumerable benefits would result to the whole human race, civilized and uncivilized. But I should wonder if the United States were to let an opportunity escape of getting such a work into...
Σελίδα 106 - any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, not known or used by others in this country, and not patented or described in any printed publication in this or any foreign country...
Σελίδα 11 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand, and my heart, to this vote.
Σελίδα 106 - Nature has already formed the most capacious and secure harbors, important commercial towns will gradually arise for the furtherance of a great intercourse between China and the East Indies and the United States. In such a case it would not only be desirable, but almost necessary, that a more rapid communication should be maintained between the eastern and western shores of North America, both by merchant ships and men-of-war, than has hitherto been possible with the tedious, disagreeable, and expensive...
Σελίδα 104 - Both speed and accuracy are given equal weights in the rating, the ratings for speed for the different rates of dictation being as follows: 80 words per minute, 70 per cent in speed; 100 words per minute, 80 per cent in speed; 120 words per minute, 90 per cent in speed; 140 words per minute, 100 per cent in speed. The rating for accuracy is determined by the correctness of the transcript.
Σελίδα 108 - For the prevention of waste the most effective means will be found in the increase and diffusion of knowledge, from which is sure to result an aroused public sentiment demanding prevention. The people have the matter in their own hands. They may prevent or limit the destruction of resources and restrain misuse through the enactment and enforcement of appropriate state and federal laws.
Σελίδα 106 - I should wonder if the United States were to let an opportunity escape of getting such a work into their own hands. It may be foreseen that this young State, with its decided predilection to the West, will, in thirty or forty years, have occupied and peopled the large tract of land beyond the Rocky Mountains.