The “bacillus of boom or depression,” he wrote, travels freely “from country to country.”

It is also curious that whereas brake-blocks made of certain compositions (other than cast iron) offer improved coefficients of friction, their use can reduce adhesion, and thereby increase the liability to skid (doubtless by tending to polish the tyres) by as much as 20 per cent.

Permanent way and other checks then somewhat slowed down this flighty progress.

he must overmatch her above her birth and calling