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We say instead of weakly and helplessly giving up a great spiritual and morally-engineering institution like the middleman because the average middleman does not know his job, we say: Exalt the middleman raise him to the n-th power, make him well do you remember, Gentle Reader, the walking beams on the old sidewheel steamers?
In any given industrial difficulty, there is and must be a vision for every man, a vision either borrowed for him or made for him by some one else, or a vision he has made for himself, that fits in just where he is. In the last analysis our industrial success is going to lie in the sense of Here, and Me, and Now, raised to the n-th power, in what might be called a kind of larger syndicalism.
I have about concluded that an engineer is a futile beast of triangles and n-th powers, unfitted by his very talents for associating with other human beings. I suppose that this letter must be interpreted as my admission of inefficiency." It was late when Jim had finished this letter. He was, he thought, alone in the house. He laid down his pen.
In such hands the excellent features of the curriculum are raised to the N-th power. Finally, academic and industrial teachers are animated with a sentiment of solidarity, with an esprit de corps, which solves many a problem of conflicting duty and jurisdiction, and which must impress the student with the essential unity of Tuskegee's endeavor to equip men and women for life.
Then it takes up another, and then another. Heroes are crowd spy-glasses. Pierpont Morgan and Tom Mann for example. Pierpont Morgan is a typical American business man raised to the n-th or hero power. The crowd thinks it is interesting to take up Pierpont Morgan, the Tom Mann of the banks. It will see what it wants, through him.
She was ever for culling, sorting, eliminating repression carried to the N-th power. At first L cordially hated her, calling her a "simp," a "bluff," a "la-de-da," and what not.
These qualities have established him, with his ability raised to the n-th power of attracting attention to anything he likes, as the world's greatest News Man the world's greatest living energy to-day in advertising what is good and what is had in our American temperament.
Maybe they'd guessed wrong, at that. Maybe Dunnan hadn't gone to Tanith at all. Harkaman, who had the knack of putting himself to sleep at will, with some sixth or n-th sense posted as a sentry, leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes. Trask wished he could, too. It would be hours before anything happened, and until then he needed all the rest he could get.
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