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He reads; and while he reads his lips move like one who spells out the words he sees. "This is the One-Way Trail," he reads. And then his eyes turn in the direction of the pointing finger. He looks down the trail which leads to Battule, whither the finger is pointing, and, looking, a strange expression creeps over his dusky features. Instinctively, he understands that the warning is meant for him.
The night shift is on and I want 'em to show you every detail of the business." "Will Damino furnish a round trip ticket?" asked Shirley, as he arose from his chair. "I don't quite know what you mean," countered Anzio. "Oh, yes you do," said Shirley emphatically. "Damino here is a 'one-way' man. It's his business to destroy opposition.
"When we started here the Baltic trade, which was, of course, the big trade before the war, had not revived. Now we find the Baltic competition growing keener, and our margin of profit is dwindling. We are handicapped also by having only a one-way traffic. Most of the Baltic firms exporting pit-props have an import trade in coal as well.
Why not reverse the relation, and make the members represent the mind as the mind represents the members? For then the unity of person represented in the mind will become something actual in the members also. Representation appears to common sense to be a one-way sort of traffic.
When they were outside again she put on her sunglasses so as to counter these feelings of "tenderness" which could misdirect her down a long and dark labyrinth of tight one-way back-alley actions leading further into her own obscurity and to prostate positions at a man-god's feet.
Nowadays I bet they'd have: Which does the most harm doctors or lawyers? Well, anyway, there Pete was in jail " "Please tell in your own simple words just how this trouble began," I broke in. "What did Pete fire the shot for and who stopped it? Now then!" "What! Don't you know about that? Well, well! So you never heard about Pete sending this medicine man over the one-way trail?
"Well, good Lord, Ted, we've been engaged eight months already and we aren't getting any furtherer " "Remember the copybooks, my son. The love of a pure, good woman and the one-way pocket that's what makes the millionaires. Besides, look at Isaac." "Well, I'm no Isaac. And Nancy isn't Rebekah, praises be! But it is an emotional strain. On both of us."
But the link between Mart and Bart Stanton had not been broken. It had become a one-way channel. Martin, in order to escape the prison of his own body, had become a receptor for Bart's thoughts. He felt as Bart felt the thrill of running after a baseball, the pride of doing something clever with his hands. In effect, Martin ceased to think. The thoughts in his mind were Bart's.
A thought that is past is as nothing, and it is forgotten, for the past and the future are like a one-way mirror, you can look forward into the future, but looking into the past you can see only the present reflected back at you. What good are the joys or sorrows of yesterday?
For a harmonograph to give satisfaction it is necessary that very little friction should be set up at the point of suspension, so that the pendulums may lose amplitude of swing very slowly. One-way suspensions are easily made. The point suspension is most suitable for small rods and moderate weights; the knife-edge for large rods and heavy weights which would tend to crush a fine point.
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