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Meanwhile the Conciliation Committee of the Labor Council, after many conferences and much effort succeeded in arranging a compromise, the working week to be fifty-one hours, with a sliding scale under which the eight-hour day would be reached in April, 1910.
Divisions and multiplications grew under his fingers. Barbicane followed him with his eyes, whilst Michel Ardan compressed a coming headache with his two hands. "Well, what do you make it?" asked Barbicane after several minutes' silence. "I make it 11,051 metres in the first second." "What do you say?" said Barbicane, starting. "Eleven thousand and fifty-one metres."
These essays, enlarged, rewritten and revised, finally emerged in Eighteen Hundred Fifty-one in the form of "Social Statics, or the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness."
At that time he was fifty-one; he had just published L'Antichrist, the most brilliant of all the volumes of the "Origines"; and he was not yet a member of the French Academy. I turn to a few other impressions from that distant time. One night we were in the Theatre Francais, and Racine's "Phedre" was to be given.
Drawing the comparison between this year and two years ago, there is an advance of "fifteen percent in employees and fifty-one percent in wages;" and an increase of "thirty percent in employees and eighty-seven percent in wages," if this year is compared with the conditions when the world was suffering from industrial depression.
It is only Horace that I know throughout, in spite of the often prosaic style of his epistles, which are certainly far from equalling Boileau's." "Boileau is often too lengthy; I admire Horace, but as for Ariosto, with his forty long cantos, there is too much of him." "It is fifty-one cantos, M. de Voltaire." The great man was silent, but Madame Denis was equal to the occasion.
From there on we travelled, in general down hill, and so quicker, but not much quicker, so that a third day entire was needed for making the fifty-one miles to Placentia. Placentia, a second time, was unlucky for us. It might have been worse, for we did not again encounter Gratillus, or anyone else who might have recognized me. But I made a fool of myself.
In February, 1847, fourteen applications were made to the Board of Health, for providing temporary hospital accommodation; in March, they received fifty-one such applications; in April, fifty-three, in May, fifty-two; in June, twenty-two; in July, sixty; in August, forty-eight; in September the number was ten, and in October only eight.
"No, and what's more, I don't care," answered Rimrock lightly. "I'm fixed so I don't have to care. Mr. Stoddard is all right he's a nice able provider, but we're running this mine, ourselves." He squeezed her hand where she had slipped it through his arm and looked down with a triumphant smile. "We, Us and Company!" he went on unctuously, "fifty-one per cent. of the stock!"
"You couldn't have played solitaire with this deck," said Jack. "Why not?" "All the cards are not here. There are but fifty-one." "There were fifty-two when I put them in my pocket," said von Ludwig, "because I counted them." Again Jack ran through the deck There were but fifty-one cards. Suddenly the lad gave a start.
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