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It was developed by Rocketdyne, a division of North American Rockwell Corporation.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution by Lynne C. Murphy
The newspapers, both Republican and Democratic, of November 8, 1876, the morning after the election, conceded an overwhelming victory for Tilden and Hendricks.
— from Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography by Henry Watterson
He had held conferences with Christian bishops and presbyters, and had issued decrees bestowing rank and dignity on numerous bishops.
— from Jovinian: A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome by William Henry Giles Kingston
I rejoined the army near Winchester about the 25th of September, 1862, going by railroad to Staunton in company with several men of Company C, who had been home on sick and wounded furloughs, from whence we tramped down the pike and back road, a distance of ninety-odd miles to and beyond Winchester.
— from Personal Reminiscences of the War of 1861-5 In Camp—en Bivouac—on the March—on Picket—on the Skirmish Line—on the Battlefield—and in Prison by W. H. (William Henry) Morgan
In 1828, the waters from Cairo to Baton Rouge, a distance of nine hundred miles, averaged fifty miles in width.
— from The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by W. H. (William Henry) Sparks
If we know that a is formed from b and c , b from a and e , c from d and f , and so forth, until we have included all the numbers of any scale we choose to select (taking care that for each number the mode of formation be really a distinct one, not bringing us round again to the former numbers, but introducing a new number), we have a set of propositions from which we may reason to all the other modes of formation of those numbers from one another.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill
The like has Florus, Seneca’s Tragedies, and near all the rest, which have, in the meantime, been castigated abroad by several learned hands, which, besides that it makes ours to be rejected, and dishonours our nation, so does it no little detriment to learning, and to the treasure of the nation in proportion.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. II by John Colin Dunlop
He went to bed, rose at dead of night, and, attended by Berwick, stole out at a back door, and went through the garden to the shore of the Medway.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
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