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Kristin Gilliss and I will have to agree to disagree about whether "The Portrait" was a good class.
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Kristin Gilliss and I will have to agree to disagree about whether "The Portrait" was a good class.
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Engineer John R. Gilliss, who worked on the tunnels, recounted the time when three of his men were walking with the storm at their backs in order to get to their shack.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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Engineer Gilliss found the scene from the Dutch Flat road to be “strangely beautiful at night.”
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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Engineer Gilliss found the scene from the Dutch Flat road to be “strangely beautiful at night.”
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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Gilliss estimated that nitroglycerin was eight times as powerful as the same weight of powder.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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Engineer John R. Gilliss, who worked on the tunnels, recounted the time when three of his men were walking with the storm at their backs in order to get to their shack.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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But John Gilliss calmly observed that the accidents “would have happened with powder.”
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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Gilliss estimated that nitroglycerin was eight times as powerful as the same weight of powder.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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Gilliss saw one team so fortunate as to have had their tails twisted clear off and thus to have been spared further agony.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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