All the admirals had grown up in sail, and many of them viewed the arrival of steam with undisguised dislike […]

A practice then prevailed of blasting without nicking the side of the place which still continues and of conducting the current of air too far by means of brattice, to both of which practices I raised a strong objection. They admitted their inability to make the men nick the coal as they formerly did and thought the application of brattice could not be properly defined, but that it should be left to the discretion of the manager of each particular mine as to the distance openings should be made apart between the intake and return air courses.

an abiding belief

It is at one and the same time a centre of research and a benevolent undertaking. Furthermore, it would tend to give concretion to a group of medical studies which might be brought under the heading of “Cancerology,” or, to be more comprehensive and scientific, of “Oncology.”