Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

identifier	question
51158	May it do so?
45179	Could the rails be used in any way to carry the primary current in a reliable manner?
45179	Could these two results be accomplished?
46122	Jim, do you think the Millcreek Bridge safe to- night?
46122	In fact, the_ New York Tribune_, in commenting on the new Pullman equipment, asked:"Should the Erie have a monopoly of such comforts?
46122	So you wish to go through to New York or Baltimore, yourself, Belinda, Biddy and the baby, baskets, bundles, etc?
46122	The question simply resolved itself to this: Did the public want them?
46122	Why does not Wagner imitate or improve upon Pullman?"
40242	Are all these freights upon schedule?
40242	But this one train?
40242	Do you remember, Maggie? 40242 Do you see that whited sepulchre down there?"
40242	Going up there?
40242	Halibut comes from Newfoundland?
40242	How can we gamble with an unknown future of such dimensions?
40242	How do you get it around here?
40242	How do you handle a wreck?
40242	How long in the air- lock?
40242	Is n''t it quite a trick handling those trains simultaneously?
40242	Is n''t it sort of positive?
40242	Is that the best you can do?
40242	It looks good to me,said the instructor;"what is the matter with it?"
40242	Look a''here, sir,he said stiffly,"why do n''t you let these other trains up the line wait?"
40242	Our method? 40242 Proud?"
40242	Punk? 40242 Schedule?"
40242	Spot the cars?
40242	Suppose the electric power that spins the gyroscope goes back on you?
40242	The boss? 40242 The boss?
40242	Want to be a sand- hog?
40242	What kind of a factory?
40242	When are you going to cart that snow off our line?
40242	Where would your dandy little town of 35,000 contented folks be under the Australian system?
40242	Who gave you authority to cut out my car?
40242	Would you like a pony engine to get over the division?
40242	You do n''t encourage kicking?
40242	You have never been in the Yellowstone?
40242	You''ve got a lot of these delegations?
40242	You?
40242	''Are you the general manager of this''ere road?''
40242	''See here,''he demanded,''what''s the matter with our service?
40242	***** You want to know the value of the shrewd and perceptive legal mind to a big railroad?
40242	Chaos, did we say?
40242	D''ye see?"
40242	Did we say rate complication?
40242	Do you know what it would mean if we were to follow the path of least resistance to- day-- to let this storm get the best of us?
40242	Do you realize what 200 miles an hour means?
40242	Do you think that 50 miles an hour is speed?
40242	Do you want figures so that you may see the might of this army?
40242	Do you wonder then that the comptroller sometimes grows gray- haired, that the vast routine of his office swells tremendously from year to year?
40242	He looked the coal shover up and down, from head to feet, then said:"How about those seven freights that you passed laid out on sidings?
40242	How much will it cost to put a subway under our track at this crossing?''
40242	How''s Hinckley?"
40242	I trust you follow me?"
40242	If travellers might sleep upon a train, why might they not eat there, too?
40242	In Yesterday men were boasting of their ability to go from New York to Philadelphia by coach in two nights and two days and were asking:"What next?"
40242	Instead of that, what do we see?
40242	Is n''t that good railroading?"
40242	Nothing wrong?
40242	Of less importance, did we say?
40242	Perhaps you would like the Australian system, where the charges diminish per mile, for each additional mile covered by a consignment?"
40242	Rates?
40242	Speed?
40242	Suppose we have a nasty smash and the coroner''s jury begins to ask nosey questions?
40242	That makes it look as if we had begun to get some sort of scientific adjustment between expense and revenue, does it not?"
40242	The cost?
40242	The officer did not reveal his identity, but said:"Waiting to take out a special?"
40242	The senior assistant tossed a letter over the desk, and asked,"Did Jim here need to write this letter?"
40242	To- morrow?
40242	What do they do when they strike soft mud like that?
40242	What do you suppose that fellow did?
40242	Where are all these kicks coming in from?''
40242	Where would the seven wholesalers of your town that we are all so proud of be located under the Australian plan?
40242	Would confusion result from several men issuing orders that might possibly conflict?
40242	Would the men object to too many bosses?
40242	You see the value of reserve motive- power, do n''t you?
40242	You want to know how they do it?
46229	''And afterward to fill it up with other soil?'' 46229 ''And you, then, are of opinion that it would be a solid embankment?''
46229	''But suppose they were to work upon this stuff, could they get their carriages to this place?'' 46229 ''How deep did you sink in?''
46229	''If the depth of the Moss should prove to be 40 feet instead of 20, would not this plan of the railway over this Moss be impracticable?'' 46229 ''My learned friend wishes to know what it would cost to lay it with diamonds?''"
46229	''Now, with respect to your evidence upon Chat Moss,''asked Mr. Alderson,''did you ever walk on Chat Moss on the proposed line of the railway?'' 46229 ''Still, you must go to the bottom of the moss?''
46229	''Was it not extremely boggy?'' 46229 ''What?''
46229	''Will it be necessary, therefore, in making a permanent railroad, to take out the whole of the moss to the bottom, along the whole line of road?'' 46229 ''Will that make it necessary to cut down the thirty- three or thirty- four feet of which you have been speaking?''
46229	''Would you put some hard materials on it before you commenced?'' 46229 But how would they know that it was n''t painted?"
46229	But what drives the engine?
46229	But what they have gone has been three, five, or six miles an hour?
46229	Get on?
46229	Have you seen a railroad that would stand that?
46229	How can that be?
46229	Is not than upon the hypothesis that the railroad is perfect?
46229	Perhaps you suspect them too much?
46229	So that those hypothetical cases of twelve miles an hour do not fall within your general experience?
46229	Taking it at four miles an hour, do you mean to say that it would not require a stronger railway to carry the same weight twelve miles an hour?
46229	Well,said Stephenson,"I''ll give you a wide range of subjects; what shall it be about?"
46229	What do you say to the light of the sun?
46229	What have we here?
46229	What kind of road, then,he was asked,"would you recommend?"
46229	What would be the momentum of forty tons moving at the rate of twelve miles an hour?
46229	What would be the use of that, you fool?
46229	Where?
46229	Why?
46229	''What d''ye ax for prime bacon?''
46229	''What''s floor the hunder?''
46229	''_ No carriage can stand on the moss short of the bottom._''"''What could they do to make it stand-- laying planks, or something of that sort?''
46229	And who, so well as he, could serve as a guide to the working- man in his endeavors after higher knowledge?
46229	Another asked if animals would not be very much frightened by the engine passing at night, especially by the glare of the red- hot chimney?
46229	But what do you think it was?
46229	But where were the men of experience to be found?
46229	By what way is the_ jet d''eau froid_ let out of the cylinder?
46229	Can you tell me what is the power that is driving that train?"
46229	Could it be done, in your opinion, for £ 6000?''
46229	Did you ever hear that I was found wanting when honest services were wanted, or when duty called me?
46229	Do you think for one moment of the destruction of property involved by it?
46229	Do you think you could do any thing to improve her?"
46229	Have n''t I paid your head many a time when you came with your father''s bait, for you were always a sad hempy?"
46229	He would go tearing into old Nanny the huxter''s shop in the village, and demand in a savage voice,''What''s ye''r best ham the pund?''
46229	How full of water is the boiler?
46229	How is it possible for such rails to stand a twenty or thirty ton engine dashing over them at the speed of fifty miles an hour?
46229	How is it supplied, and what is the quantity of its waste of water?
46229	How was this to be accounted for?
46229	I was, however, a poor man; and how do you think I managed?
46229	It impelled ships by sea; why should it not be used to impel carriages by land?
46229	Kit Heppel, one of the sinkers, asked him,"Weel, George, what do you mak''o''her?
46229	Leaping from the corve on its touching the ground, he called out,"Are there six men among you who have the courage to follow me?
46229	On entering the room, the general and excited inquiry was,"Which is Stephenson?"
46229	Stephenson?"
46229	Striking the floor with his stick, and holding his noble person upright, he would say, in his own kind way,"Well, and how''s all here to- day?"
46229	Then, turning full round upon the witness, he said,"I ask you, sir, do you call that conduct_ honest_?"
46229	Turning suddenly to his friend Sopwith, he exclaimed,"Do you see the''Rocket?''"
46229	Was it to be a failure or a success?
46229	Was there any person he could recommend?
46229	Was there no way of remedying these great and admitted evils?
46229	Were the commercial public to continue to be bound hand and foot, and left at the mercy of the canal proprietors?
46229	What chance had any ordinary constitution of surviving such an ordeal?
46229	What chance had the unknown workman of Killingworth with so distinguished a competitor?
46229	What was to become of coach- makers and harness- makers, coach- masters and coachmen, innkeepers, horse- breeders, and horse- dealers?
46229	What width was this to be?
46229	What with those who may still wish to travel in their own or hired carriages, after the fashion of their forefathers?
46229	When Stephenson first met Brunel in Newcastle, he good- naturedly shook him by the collar, and asked"what business he had north of the Tyne?"
46229	Who but Mr. Stephenson would have thought of entering into Chat Moss, carrying it out almost like wet dung?
46229	With a bridge of such powers, what have we to fear?
46229	Would Mr. Stephenson be answerable for him?
46229	_ do n''t I see your bridges_?"
46229	can not we have a change, and try if we can talk a little about something else?"
46229	she said,"but hoo hae ye gotten it?"
39926	A horse railway?
39926	But,answered the others,"ought we to make such an outlay of money without first giving the locomotive a fair trial?"
39926	Does you Love God?
39926	Does you love God?
39926	Have you got the Shilling?
39926	Have you got the Shilling?
39926	WHOSE DOG IS IT?
39926	Weel, George,said his friend Kit one day,"what do you mak''o''her?
39926	What is to be done?
39926	What''s that to Me?
39926	Who can believe what is so notoriously in the teeth of all experience?
39926	Who_ began_ railroads?
39926	Will Father be a Goat, Mother?
39926	Will Father be a Goat?
39926	''DOES YOU LOVE GOD?''
39926	''Will Father be a Goat?''
39926	***** What became of George Stephenson and his son Robert?
39926	A Crown: or, Does it Pay?
39926	But is it_ necessary_ to keep up Sabbath violation on our great routes in order to forward the mail?
39926	But were not people frightened by the smoke, cinders, fire, and noise of the engines, as the opposition in Parliament declared they would be?
39926	But what can one man, or a few men, do in an enterprise like this, depending upon the verdict of that important power-- Public Opinion?
39926	By the Author of"Whose dog is it?"
39926	CHAPTER V. HUNTING UP HIS OWN WORK-- AN ENTERPRISING QUAKER-- WHAT WAS THE RESULT?
39926	Could the directors accept a project without consulting him?
39926	Could there be a_ third_ water- line between the two cities?
39926	Could they ever be laid up hill, or on"ascending gradients,"as the scientific term is?
39926	Did it go?
39926	Did three years scatter the ignorance out of which it grew?
39926	Do you think you could doctor her?"
39926	Does not the Saturday telegraph do away with that necessity?
39926	Familiar as it has become to us, who does not stop to look with interest at the puffing, snorting, screaming steam- horse?
39926	For Sabbath profanation leads to forgetfulness of God; and God left out, what becomes of man?
39926	Had George Stephenson satisfied himself?
39926	Have you a Winter Garden?
39926	How can these things be?
39926	How did he feel to be thus thrown in the background?
39926	How shall you Vote?
39926	How was Robert to get the gist of these home?
39926	How wide apart should they be?
39926	How would it be again?
39926	IS HALF BETTER THAN the Whole?
39926	Nobody convinced him that his first plan was not the right one; but what can a man do in any public enterprise without supporters?
39926	Not read?
39926	Please, Sir, will you Read it?
39926	Should Museums be Opened on Sundays?
39926	Should Museums be Opened on Sundays?
39926	Some kind of machine, but_ what_?
39926	THE BEST MASTER; or, Can Coachmen have their Sundays?
39926	TWO CITIES THAT WANTED TO GET NEAR EACH OTHER-- A NEW FRIEND CHAPTER V. HUNTING UP HIS OWN WORK-- AN ENTERPRISING QUAKER-- WHAT WAS THE RESULT?
39926	The poor inventor, what had he done meanwhile?
39926	The surveys, quite likely, were imperfect; indeed, how could they be otherwise, when every mile of the line had to be done at the risk of their necks?
39926	Then how to get rid of the jolts and jars and breakages of the rails as they were then laid?
39926	WHAT''S THAT TO ME?
39926	Was the enterprise a second time to be abandoned?
39926	Was the plugman going to stay plugman?
39926	What becomes of a nation?
39926	What did George think then?
39926	What engine was?
39926	What good would books do poor George?
39926	What had he to say concerning it?
39926	What had the friends of steam- power to say?
39926	What had_ they_ to say?
39926	What is that?
39926	What is to become of coach- makers and harness- makers, coach- masters and workmen, innkeepers, horse- breeders, and horse- dealers?
39926	What right had_ he_ to know how to cure an evil that had baffled them?
39926	What useful little fellow is this, carrying his father''s dinner to him at the coal- pit?
39926	What was the gist of the hostility?
39926	What was to be done?
39926	What was to be done?
39926	What with those who may still wish to travel in their own or hired carriages, after the fashion of their forefathers?
39926	What would befall it there?
39926	What would the people of those days say to a railroad carriage, especially on the"Lightning Train?"
39926	What''s This?
39926	What?
39926	What?
39926	Where are you going, Thomas Brown?
39926	Where should he find the right man?
39926	While others worked had he slept?
39926	Who beat?
39926	Who could gainsay George''s skill?
39926	Who were they, making such mysterious measurements and calculations on other people''s land?
39926	Who?
39926	Wilt thou Use or Abuse thy Trust?
39926	Would the Bridgewater Canal increase its power, and reduce its charges?
39926	_ He_ afraid?
39926	how did he feel?