"Distribution" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and tools require a good deal of looking after. By keeping a memorandum of the distribution of any set of tools, they will be much more likely to be forthcoming at the end of the month. Axes, hoes, and other small tools, of which every hand has his own, should have his number marked upon it with a steel punch. The strict enforcement of one single rule will keep every ...
— Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field • Thomas W. Knox
... natural duties. So admirably is the working of a town government, as it goes on in a well-disposed community, displayed in the history of Concord's two hundred years of village life, that one of its wisest citizens had portions of the address printed for distribution, as an illustration of the ...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson • Oliver Wendell Holmes
... industrial nations devotes itself to transportation; another one fifteenth to maintaining public services—light, gas, telephone, water, sewage, streets, parks—unknown in earlier times; and another one fifteenth to the manufacture and distribution and care of automobiles. Add still further the numbers employed in connection with theaters, moving-picture shows, phonographs, magazines and the newspapers, soft-drink places, millinery and dry goods, hospitals, and similar ...
— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY
... a steady control over the operations of government, especially after the dissolution of the Union; and the weight of the commons was more decisive in it, than in other similar assemblies of that period. Its singular distribution into four estates was favorable to this. The knights and hidalgos, an intermediate order between the great nobility and the people, when detached from the former, naturally lent additional support to the latter, with whom, indeed, they had considerable ...
— History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella V1 • William H. Prescott
... The distribution of the gifts proved to be a somewhat lengthy function, for the articles presented included a considerable number of mechanical toys, the working of each of which had to be carefully explained to ...
— The Adventures of Dick Maitland - A Tale of Unknown Africa • Harry Collingwood
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