 America, if we take up the morning paper and do not find two or three $100.000 fires recorded we think it has been a dull evening! We are the most careless people with matches on the face of the earth. In Europe, if you want matches you have to go where...  Journal of the Western Society of Engineers - Page 246by Western Society of Engineers (Chicago, Ill.) - 1914Full view - About this book
 | Political science - 1917 - 366 pages
...in America, if we take up the morning paper and do not find reports of two or three $100,000 fires we think it has been a dull evening! We are the most...everywhere; on our bureaus; in our desk drawers; on the mantel-pieces; library tables; in all our old waistcoat pockets in the closets. If we wake up in the... | |
 | 1917 - 602 pages
...in America, if we take up the morning paper and do not find reports of two or three $100,000 fires we think it has been a dull evening ! We are the most...careless people with matches on the face of the earth. Matches are everywhere ; on our bureaus, in our desk drawers, on the mantel-pieces, library tables,... | |
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