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"Gwenlyn insists that I have the talent of finding and using talents." "A mild talent, Father," said Gwenlyn. "Not enough to make you revolting. But " A door opened. A tweedy man with a small mustache stood in the doorway. "I believe I'm wanted?" he said offhandedly. Morgan introduced him. His name was Logan. He was the lightning calculator, the mathematical talent of Talents, Incorporated.
Consequently, he takes into account the habits and dispositions of his tenants, the pressing and permanent wants for which the new structure is to provide. These wants, however, must not be theoretic and vague, but verified and defined; for he is a calculator as close as he is profound, and deals only with positive facts. To restore tranquillity, many novel measures are essential.
Two and two will undoubtedly make four, irrespective of the emotions or other idiosyncrasies of the calculator; and the three angles of a triangle insist on being equal to two right angles, in the face of the most impassioned rhetoric or the most inspired verse.
The most wonderful genius in the office, and the one who would have been the most interesting subject of study to a psychologist, was Truman Henry Safford. In early childhood he had excited attention by his precocity as what is now sometimes called a "lightning calculator." A committee of the American Academy of Arts and Science was appointed to examine him.
This, therefore, is the problem: What thickness ought an iron obus to have in order to weigh only 20,000 lbs.? Our clever calculator, Mr. Maston, will tell us at once." "Nothing is easier," replied the honourable secretary. So saying, he traced some algebraical signs on the paper, amongst which n^2 and x^2 frequently appeared. He even seemed to extract from them a certain cubic root, and said
The two Acrobats, the German Calculator, and the English bareback-rider maid stood on one side. My thought was that it was all an advertising trick of the Circus people, arranged for spectacular effect to help the night's receipts. While I looked on in wonder, the Manager of the Sleeping-Car Company joined me.
Yet the influence of the mysterious state of my nerves, which I have described above, was so marvelous that, incredible though it seems, the moment the Exchange closed, I knew exactly, where I stood. Like a mechanical lightning calculator, my mind threw up before me the net result of these selling and buying transactions.
You may know that they don't learn dialect songs nor ornament tea houses." "Very remarkable," Dunsack returned imperturbably. "We never see them. How did you manage a go-between, and did you send the hour of your birth to the Calculator of Destinies?
It is the duty of all us Yankee seamen to stand by the stripes; and I hope I'm as ready as another to do what I ought to do, in such a matter; but my owner is a close calculator, and I am much inclined to think that he will care less for this sort of feeling than you and I. The deacon was never in blue water." "So I suppose He has a charming daughter, I believe, Gar'ner?"
But well he might make of her he will be doin' dretful well to git Arvilly; she's a good worker and calculator, and her principles are like brass and iron for soundness; and she's real good-lookin', too, now looks 'leven years younger, or ten and a half, anyway. But jest as Arvilly and I wuz a-withdrawin' ourselves from each other, I sez, "Arvilly, have you been to the Fair Sundays?"
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