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- I had never seen one, and did not know how it worked, with the result that we soon burned up the babbitt metal in the bearings and spent a good part of the night getting them in order. - "Edison, His Life and Inventions", Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin.
- Instead of sacrificing, Swanson received orders to hit and run and, although he was thrown out at first base, McCarthy reached second, and Babbitt, the first baseman, came to bat. - "Jimmy Kirkland and the Plot for a Pennant", Hugh S. Fullerton.
- Indeed, Professor Babbitt quotes him as saying in a letter to Charles Eliot Norton, " mere sanity is the most Philistine and at the bottom most unessential of a man's attributes." - "Preaching and Paganism", Albert Parker Fitch.