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 |
|---|---|
| 7348 | What is it the people like? |
| 29269 | But by whom is this work to be undertaken? |
| 48924 | Which is better, a sea level or a lock? |
| 48924 | Will the dam stand? |
| 37671 | The white man already rules, or has marked off for rule, the whole of the equatorial belt, but who is to be the peasant cultivating this belt? |
| 37671 | What then are we to understand by the term"neutral"as applied to the Panama Canal in war time? |
| 42603 | Are all these great minds dullards on the Canal question? |
| 42603 | Are they not the men who_ ought to understand_ the great interests of our country,_ impartially_ considered? |
| 42603 | Could he have better expressed his true appreciation of cheap water carriage and of the inter- oceanic canal? |
| 42603 | Why not? |
| 42603 | Will freight continue to prefer ten thousand miles greater distance around Cape Horn or higher Panama Railway Route and overland railway charges? |
| 12010 | A Beachey soaring aloft- why all the bravado of curve and loop? |
| 12010 | And the layman out of his mental repugnance to things mathematical echoes,''Why?'' |
| 12010 | As you gaze at the portrayal so strangely weird in form and color you ask yourself where have I felt that, seen this, before? |
| 12010 | By what intuition was he impelled? |
| 12010 | What of this perceptual residue? |
| 12010 | Why, then, do you seek to spatialize it?'' |
| 12010 | a folding over? |
| 31383 | The floating of the bond issue is a simple matter, if you men think we ought to do it; but where is the money for meeting the interest to come from? 31383 But why build a canal almost large enough, only? 31383 How, then, expect to make an excavation fifty feet deep? 31383 Must we increase that tax? 31383 What will be the rate charged for a site? 31383 Why build a 25-foot lock when ships drawing 30-feet of water come to New Orleans? 31383 Why not make a capacity facility while they were about it? 31383 Will it be based on the actual cost of the Canal and its maintenance? 34124 Colonel,"he said,"how is it that so small a body of earth as the Gatun dam can hold in check such a tremendous body of water as the Gatun Lake?" |
| 34124 | Senator,he said,"if your theory were true, how could the dykes of Holland hold in check the Atlantic Ocean?" |
| 34124 | And Colombia? |
| 34124 | And moreover, why did the Bogotá troops not arrive from Colon? |
| 34124 | And what of the lonely continent that bounds this oceanic abyss in the far south- west? |
| 34124 | Can we, then, roughly forecast the changes in ocean trade- routes which will result from this new channel of communication between East and West? |
| 34124 | Has Panama any danger to fear from its old rival the Nicaraguan canal project? |
| 34124 | Is the Panama Canal likely to be used by sailing vessels? |
| 34124 | What in the meantime was occurring at Colon? |
| 34124 | What will be the effect of the opening of the canal on Panamanian prosperity? |
| 34124 | What, then, is the meaning of these slopes which are being prepared for forts and batteries at either end of the canal? |
| 34124 | Who will be the first circumnavigator along the all- northern trail? |
| 34124 | Why had the 450 Colombian soldiers not flown to the rescue and vengeance of their captured officers? |
| 41807 | But did you have a definite understanding with him that this should afford no excuse for any further delay in completing the gates? |
| 41807 | But have you taken into consideration all of the time you are likely to lose as the result of heavy rains? |
| 41807 | Ca n''t any other employee of the Canal Commission get bread there under the same terms? |
| 41807 | Ca n''t you find room to operate another temporary concrete mixer down there? |
| 41807 | Do n''t you think it would be more satisfactory to keep both parts of that work under one division? 41807 How much water do you have in the stretch between the two dikes?" |
| 41807 | How soon do you expect to get that connection made between the lock walls and the dam proper? |
| 41807 | How soon do you expect to have this dam up to its full height? |
| 41807 | Is there anything else you need to keep the work moving forward so as to be certain to complete the dam by the time you promised? |
| 41807 | What are you planning to do there? |
| 41807 | What''s the use trying to stop a river that does not exist? |
| 41807 | When do you think you will have the gates in the west chambers completed so that we can put the dredge through? |
| 41807 | Are they not enough to stamp it as the greatest single achievement in human history? |
| 41807 | But suppose even this would not suffice to take care of the floods of the Chagres? |
| 41807 | Is it to be baked or steamed? |
| 41807 | Or should it be merged into the Canal Government and operated purely as an auxiliary of the canal with no separate existence? |
| 41807 | Should it be continued as a separate entity distinct from the canal but controlled by the canal authorities? |
| 41807 | Why do n''t you allow it all to be done by the other people?" |
| 41807 | With all these astonishing comparisons in mind, is it strange that the digging of the Panama Canal is the world''s greatest engineering project? |
| 41987 | And my simple question is, how comes about this expressiveness? 41987 ***** And great explorer-- could you arise and speak-- How did you feel when you discovered a sea? 41987 ***** And great explorer-- could you but speak-- What would you say to a whole coast with pilgrims from all the world inquiring of thee? 41987 And why was this? 41987 Can a human eye that''s sealed by a night and sun- dazed by day discover a sea? 41987 Could a Balboa discover a sea? 41987 Did you feel like a babe first opening its eyes from marge to marge on heaven''s blue skys? 41987 Did you feel like a mariner sailing the ship of the Earth out through the gates of the dawn? 41987 Did you feel like a soul just escaping from its clay out into the joy of the freedom of space into a home built from the light of the suns? 41987 Discover, O discover a far- going, a far- coming endless, sky- meeting, infinitely finite sea? 41987 For able to speak to man, like brooks and flowers, I am inquiring, what you are about, the knowledge of your place in the amelioration of the world? 41987 For, what do these striking verses in the Prophet Zechariah mean?--''What sees''t thou? |
| 41987 | Looking, looking, looking far outward, how did you feel when you first saw the sea? |
| 41987 | O great sea, who''s purpose doest thou fulfill? |
| 41987 | They are asking what does the peculiar inspiration of this Exposition mean? |
| 41987 | VII The Sea''s Highest Decree WHAT ARE THE SEAS ABOUT? |
| 41987 | What are thou almightily about, what doing?" |
| 41987 | What do these beautiful verses mean? |
| 41987 | What was it? |
| 41987 | Where would one find a more fitting comparison for people of the same sort in our day? |
| 41987 | Who were these world pioneers? |
| 41987 | Why did He go to the Mount of Olives? |
| 23435 | Do you think it is profitable to underdrain land? |
| 23435 | And how comes it dry, at any time, if water does not come out of it? |
| 23435 | But what harm does evaporation do? |
| 23435 | But where are the canals? |
| 23435 | But wo n''t these tiles get filled up and stopped? |
| 23435 | DO ALL LANDS REQUIRE DRAINAGE? |
| 23435 | Does this pressure exist? |
| 23435 | For a further answer to the question-- what lands require drainage? |
| 23435 | From_ what_ forty feet of land will the water fall into the drain? |
| 23435 | How can draining land make it more moist? |
| 23435 | How comes it wet, at any time, if water does not go into it? |
| 23435 | How could a heavy wall and building stand on that foundation? |
| 23435 | How long will they last? |
| 23435 | How much and what land should it drain? |
| 23435 | How much increase of crop will pay this two dollars? |
| 23435 | Is it profitable to fence land? |
| 23435 | Is there no danger of draining land too much? |
| 23435 | May not land be over- drained? |
| 23435 | May the upper owner legally proceed with the drainage of his own land, if he thus interfere with the interests of the man below? |
| 23435 | Ruffin''s Drainage in Virginia.--Is there Danger of Over- draining? |
| 23435 | Ruffin''s Drainage in Virginia.--Is there Danger of Over- draining? |
| 23435 | The first point of inquiry is, what is expected of each drain? |
| 23435 | The question is not whether drainage will pay in one or two years, but will it pay in the long run? |
| 23435 | There is good sense and discretion in the inquisitiveness which suggests so often the inquiry,"How much does it cost to drain an acre?" |
| 23435 | This_ shallowness_ will reduce the cost of labor about one half, so that we shall have the cost of labor and tiles equal-- one cent a foot, making 33? |
| 23435 | To resume the inquiry, what lands require drainage? |
| 23435 | WHAT ARE DRAIN- TILES? |
| 23435 | WHAT LANDS REQUIRE DRAINAGE? |
| 23435 | WILL IT PAY? |
| 23435 | What can a person find on such a subject to write a book about? |
| 23435 | What can an Irishman do with a chopping ax, and what can not a Yankee do with it? |
| 23435 | What is the pressure of the water upon the tiles? |
| 23435 | What makes the land too wet? |
| 23435 | Whence came our love of territorial extension, our national ambition, exhibited under the affectionate name of annexation? |
| 23435 | Whence came the spirit of independence, the fearless love of liberty of which we boast, but from our English blood? |
| 23435 | Why does not the water all run out of the soil, and leave it dry? |
| 23435 | Will it be more profitable, on the whole, than an investment in bank or railway shares, or the purchase of Western lands? |
| 23435 | Will it, when completed, return to the farmer a fair rate of interest for the money expended? |
| 23435 | Your theories may be all correct and demonstrable by the purest mathematics, but the question is, with what tool will Patrick do the most work? |
| 23435 | _ Is there danger of over- draining swamp lands?_ In speaking of the injury by drainage, we have treated of this question. |
| 23435 | and what has all this scientific talk to do with drainage? |
| 23435 | is it profitable to plow land? |
| 23435 | or,"How much does it cost a rod to lay drains?" |