#r

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#concentration #entirely #form #game #i

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. ↗

— John Moody

#great #great men #greatest #history #leaders

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#flunked #hard #major #physics #rice

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship. ↗

— John Moody

#originally #railroad #ship #steam

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism. ↗

— Norman Tebbit

#certainly #death #intellectuals #movement #political

The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#because #every #finals #moment #off

As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains. ↗

— John Moody

#big government #company #contest #country #entire

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car. ↗

— John Moody

#appearance #boat #canal #car #made

Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand. ↗

— John Moody

#both #completely #dealing #did #evils

People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned. ↗

— John Moody

#almost #began #california #concerned #continent