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"Metric" Quotes from Famous Books

... standards still rages—metric, or decimal, or no change. What each nation has is good enough for it in the opinion of many of its people. Some day an international commission will doubtless assemble to bring order out of chaos. As far as the English-speaking race is concerned, it seems that a decided improvement could ...

— James Watt • Andrew Carnegie

... Unit is the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water from 60 degrees to 61 degrees Fahrenheit. It is 251.9 times greater than the metric unit, therm or calorie, which is the amount of heat required to raise one gramme of water from 4 degrees to ...

— The Story Of Electricity • John Munro

... love; I love the birds; The beasts in field and forest, too, I love, But I have writ these poor, if metric words, To query which, by all the pow'rs above, Of all the animals—pray tell me, some one— Is called by any courtesy a ...

— Tobogganing On Parnassus • Franklin P. Adams

... print—and wakes, to sleep no more— The world goes on, indifferent, as before; And the first notice of his metric skill Comes in the likeness of—his printer's bill; To pen soft notes no fair enthusiast stirs, Except his laundress—and who values her's? None but herself: for though the bard may burn Her note, she still ...

— Poems (1828) • Thomas Gent

... seems to be using the European decimal point ",", in the metric measurements, and the American decimal point in the ...

— Babylonian and Assyrian Literature • Anonymous

... to the Senate, for consideration with a view to ratification, a metric convention between the United States and certain foreign governments, signed at Paris on the 20th of May, 1875, by Mr. E.B. Washburne, the minister of the United States at that capital, acting on behalf of this Government, and by ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Ulysses S. Grant • James D. Richardson

... fairly large as such planetary debris went—some five hundred meters in diameter, with a mass of around one hundred seventy-four million metric tons. ...

— Thin Edge • Gordon Randall Garrett

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