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Time, as we know it, is a very recent invention. The modem time-
sense is hardly older than the United States. It is a by-product of industrialism
—a sort of psychological analogy of synthetic perfumes and aniline 67. ______
dyes.
Time is our tyrant. We are chronologically aware of the moving minute 68. ______
hand, even of the moving second hand. We have to be.
There are trains to be caught, tasks to be done in specified period, re-
cords to be broken by factions of a second, machines that set the pace and 69. ______
have to be kept up with. Our consciousness of the smallest units of time is
now big. To us, for example, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something— 70. ______
something very important, if happens to be the starting time of our daily 71. ______
train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was with significance 72. ______
—did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Steven-
son were part inventors of time.
Another time-emphasized entity is the factory and its dependent, the 73. ______
office. Factories exist for the purpose of getting certain quantity of goods 74. ______
made in a certain time. The artisan worked as it suited him with the result
that consumers generally had to wait for tile goods they had ordered from
him. The factory is a device for making workman hurry. The machine re-
volves so often each minute; so many movements have to be made, so many
pieces produce each hour. Result: the factory worker is compelled to know 75. ______
time in its smallest fractions. In the hand-work age there was no such a 76. ______
compulsion to be aware of minutes and seconds.

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quantity→quantities。
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