While the bathroom scale might not react to the box placed there alone, the pan spring balance would; it registered a baby or the Thanksgiving turkey with equal facility. That some characteristics of materials change, in going from one such scale to another, is easily neglected—a tomato ...
noting sales of “a little bit of everything.” The Orleans, Mass., dealer had a few things at the end of one table that he’d acquired from a couple who had lived in Pakistan for several years while working for the government: two framed Nineteenth Century watercolor drawings and some ...
While the bathroom scale might not react to the box placed there alone, the pan spring balance would; it registered a baby or the Thanksgiving turkey with equal facility. That some characteristics of materials change, in going from one such scale to another, is easily neglected—a tomato ...