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read our Plato and Xenophon
When I was in school we read our Plato and Xenophon as you now read your German and French; but what we learned, above the language itself, was the thought of that ancient time.
— from Shadow Mountain by Dane Coolidge

results of polarising and x
With chocolate containing meal, the temperature must not exceed 50° C. From the two polarisations, the following equation results: a (100-x) = b(200-x), in which a and b are the results of polarising, and x the volume of the insoluble substances, including the lead precipitate, contained in the half normal weight.
— from The Manufacture of Chocolate and other Cacao Preparations by Paul Zipperer

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