Four great Liberty Loans were floated, all the agencies of modern publicity being employed to enlist popular interest.
Under the action of internal agencies rocks of all kinds may be rendered harder, more firmly cemented, and more crystalline.
It created the only space experts, which meant that the men placed in government agencies to regulate it came from its own ranks.
Of these agencies, the first is not entirely competent, the second is not entirely honest, and the third is not entirely up to date.
They embrace all unseen agencies, they are void of personality, and yet to the illogical primitive man there is nothing contradictory in making them the object of his prayers.
I am not speaking of these, for they are not properly "books" at all; they come in the category of time-tables, telephone directories, and other useful agencies of civilized life.
Chloroform, nitrous oxide gas, and ether had been placed at the service of the physician in saving life, and the revolver, guncotton, and nitroglycerine added to the agencies for slaughter.
A network of canals was constructed throughout the country, which restricted the destructive tendencies of the Tigris and Euphrates and developed to a high degree their potentialities as fertilizing agencies.
While many factory districts are forlorn, there may be seen around many factories more happy conditions, better buildings, better sanitation, increased leisure for workers, workmen's clubs, educational agencies, and many other evidences of civic and social progress.