 | Wisconsin. State Board of Health - Public health - 1903 - 322 pages
...eustomary to run the filter only in the spring until the water becomes clear and again in the fall during the seasons of high or turbid water. This method...there is nothing that would protect the consumers of siich supply for that portion of the year in which the filter was not employed. Moreover, the direct... | |
 | Michigan. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1884 - 482 pages
...down the high places and filling the low ones. Steep ascents should be obviated wherever possible. As a chain is no stronger than its weakest link, so a road is only available for the transportation of such loads as can be hauled up its steepest acclivities.... | |
 | Engineering - 1873 - 590 pages
...to be disputed that nowhere can 100 consecutive miles of permanent way in perfection be found, and as a chain is no stronger than its weakest link, so a few hundred yards of bad track would spoil for the purpose of travelling at 100 miles an hour a whole... | |
 | New South Wales. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1890 - 404 pages
...abundance, yet the absence of this ono makes the soil as useless for certain crops as if all were deficient. As a chain is no stronger than its weakest link, so a soil has no more potential value than that indicated by its most deficient constituent, having regard... | |
 | Ernest Myers - Great Britain - 1890 - 260 pages
...significance of the confused blunders which led to the misadventure is nothing more than the old lesson that, as a chain is no stronger than its weakest link, so a group of men acting together is liable to disconcertment and defeat by the infirmity of any one member... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting - Education - 1897 - 1148 pages
...the representation of music that divide it into measures. These represent the real things of music. As "A chain is no stronger than its weakest link," so a song is no more rhythmical than its weakest measure. How are we to read ? Musically, the same as arithmetically,... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.) - Education - 1897 - 1170 pages
...the representation of music that divide it into measures. These represent the real things of music. As "A chain is no stronger than its weakest link," so a song is no more rhythmical than its weakest measure. How are we to read ? Musically, the same as arithmetically,... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - Education - 1897 - 1148 pages
...the representation of music that divide it into measures. These represent the real things of music. As "A chain is no stronger than its weakest link," so a song is no more rhythmical than its weakest measure. How are we to read ? Musically, the same as arithmetically,... | |
 | Herbert Woodfield Paul - English literature - 1901 - 352 pages
...into her stories allusions which only professors could understand. One can hardly say with truth that, as a chain is no stronger than its weakest link, so a novel is not more durable than its most perishable part. But it is dangerous to put anything into works... | |
 | Jerome Bruce Crabtree - Industrial arts - 1901 - 792 pages
...Fiji Island to Norfolk, 961 miles; Norfolk to Queensland, Australia, 834 miles. Total, 7454 miles. As a chain is no stronger than its weakest link, so a cable is no faster than its slowest section. The section from Vancouver to Fanning is 400 or 500 miles... | |
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As a chain is no stronger than its weakest link, so a water supply must be judged from those conditions that present its worst and most dangerous aspect. 
