All 50 Uses of
comet
in
Atlas Shrugged
- She needed the time, yet she wished the train would go faster; but it was the Taggart Comet, the fastest train in the country.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- "This is the Taggart Comet," she said.†
Chpt 1.1
- The Comet has never been late.†
Chpt 1.1
- Get the Comet in on schedule.†
Chpt 1.1
- The Comet came next and I took it.†
Chpt 1.1
- With the first whistling rush of air, as the Comet plunged into the tunnels of the Taggart Terminal under the city of New York, Dagny Taggart sat up straight.†
Chpt 1.1
- He wandered through the room, looking at the clusters of waybills that hung on the walls, at the calendar with a picture of the Taggart Comet caught in a proud surge of motion toward the onlooker.†
Chpt 1.5
- The winner was not in the room, but he was one of the best men on the system, Pat Logan, engineer of the Taggart Comet on the Nebraska Division.†
Chpt 1.8
- The engineer will be Pat Logan, of the Taggart Comet, the fireman-Ray McKim.†
Chpt 1.8
- Now, these men had climbed the hill to see a silver-headed comet cut through their plains like the sound of a bugle through a long weight of silence.†
Chpt 1.8
- They were seventy miles and an hour away from it, when she said, "Hank, do you see the Taggart Comet being pulled across the continent by a coal-burner of that kind?"†
Chpt 1.9
- Jim obtained the oil for the Diesels that pulled the Comet and a few of their transcontinental freights.†
Chpt 2.1
- Mr. Rearden will be in New York tomorrow, arriving on the Comet, Mrs. Rearden," said Miss Ives' clear, courteous voice.†
Chpt 2.5
- I should like to have two dozen roses delivered to Mr. Rearden's drawing room aboard the Comet......Yes, today, this afternoon, when the Comet reaches Chicago......No, without any card-just the flowers......Thank you ever so much.†
Chpt 2.5
- I should like to have two dozen roses delivered to Mr. Rearden's drawing room aboard the Comet......Yes, today, this afternoon, when the Comet reaches Chicago......No, without any card-just the flowers......Thank you ever so much.†
Chpt 2.5
- "Our Chicago office sent word that they were unable to deliver the flowers, Mrs. Rearden," he said, "because Mr. Rearden is not aboard the Comet."†
Chpt 2.5
- We checked with the New York office of Taggart Transcontinental, just to make certain, and were told that Mr. Rearden's name is not on the passenger list of the Comet.†
Chpt 2.5
- On the Comet?†
Chpt 2.5
- He telephoned from the station in Chicago, and he mentioned that he had to hurry back aboard, as the Comet was about to leave.†
Chpt 2.5
- Standing on the Terminal platform, at a point halfway down the length of the train, Lillian Rearden watched the passengers descending from the Comet.†
Chpt 2.5
- Every Diesel we own is out on the road, pulling the Comet and the transcontinental freights, and there wasn't a spare one anywhere on the system, except-well, that was an exception I wasn't going to mention to Mr. Clifton Locey.†
Chpt 2.7
- It was a private car, which Chalmers had demanded and obtained for his journey; it was attached to the end of the Comet and it swung like the tail of a nervous animal as the Comet coiled through the curves of the mountains.†
Chpt 2.7
- It was a private car, which Chalmers had demanded and obtained for his journey; it was attached to the end of the Comet and it swung like the tail of a nervous animal as the Comet coiled through the curves of the mountains.†
Chpt 2.7
- He had shown no concern about the rally until this evening, when he noticed that the Comet was running six hours late.†
Chpt 2.7
- The Comet?†
Chpt 2.7
- "The Comet?" gasped Mitchum, his hand pressing the telephone receiver to his ear, his feet hitting the floor and throwing him upright, out of bed.†
Chpt 2.7
- But we can't keep the Comet waiting on a siding all night!†
Chpt 2.7
- That one has superiority over everything on the line, including the Comet, by order of the Army.†
Chpt 2.7
- If you think we'll catch hell for holding the Comet, it's nothing to what we'll catch if we try to stop that Special.†
Chpt 2.7
- "Look, Dave," said Bill Brent, knowing that Mitchum would stall for another hour rather than formulate a decision, "you know that there's only one thing to do: hold the Comet at Winston till morning, wait for Number 236, have her Diesel take the Comet through the tunnel, then let the Comet finish her run with the best coal-burner we can give her on the other side,"†
Chpt 2.7
- "Look, Dave," said Bill Brent, knowing that Mitchum would stall for another hour rather than formulate a decision, "you know that there's only one thing to do: hold the Comet at Winston till morning, wait for Number 236, have her Diesel take the Comet through the tunnel, then let the Comet finish her run with the best coal-burner we can give her on the other side,"†
Chpt 2.7
- "Look, Dave," said Bill Brent, knowing that Mitchum would stall for another hour rather than formulate a decision, "you know that there's only one thing to do: hold the Comet at Winston till morning, wait for Number 236, have her Diesel take the Comet through the tunnel, then let the Comet finish her run with the best coal-burner we can give her on the other side,"†
Chpt 2.7
- Eighteen hours-for the Comet?†
Chpt 2.7
- It was half-past two when the Comet, pulled by an old switch engine, jerked to a stop on a siding of Winston Station.†
Chpt 2.7
- Am held up on the Comet at Winston, Colorado, by the incompetence of your men, who refuse to give me an engine.†
Chpt 2.7
- I never heard of the Comet being held up!†
Chpt 2.7
- Send the Comet through safely and without unnecessary delay.†
Chpt 2.7
- The order stated that he was to send the Comet through "safely"—wasn't a division superintendent expected to know what was safe?†
Chpt 2.7
- As he looked at Locey's order, he thought that he could hold the Comet, attach Mr. Chalmers' car to an engine and send it into the tunnel, alone.†
Chpt 2.7
- He thought of the passengers-the three hundred passengers aboard the Comet.†
Chpt 2.7
- He saw, in astonished horror, that the choice which he now had to make was between the lives of his children and the lives of the passengers on the Comet.†
Chpt 2.7
- If he warned all the men on his list, he thought, there would be no one to run that engine, so he would save two lives and also three hundred lives aboard the Comet.†
Chpt 2.7
- So if you don't hear from me in half an hour, sign the order and send the Comet through with Number 306 to pull her.†
Chpt 2.7
- With the door closed, he repeated to the boy the story of the Diesel at Fairmount, as he had given it to Brent, and the order to send the Comet through with Engine Number 306, if the boy did not hear from him in half an hour.†
Chpt 2.7
- "Yes, sir," he answered numbly Dave Mitchum departed for Fairmount, announcing to every yardman, switchman and wiper in sight, as he boarded the track motor car that he was going in search of a Diesel for the Comet.†
Chpt 2.7
- With the conscientious precision of a railroad man, in the moment when the hand of the clock ended the half-hour, he signed his name to the order instructing the Comet to proceed with Engine Number 306, and transmitted the order to Winston Station.†
Chpt 2.7
- When he handed their copies of the order to the conductor and the engineer of the Comet, the conductor glanced slowly about the room, from face to face, folded the slip of paper, put it into his pocket and walked out without a word.†
Chpt 2.7
- Will you take the Comet?†
Chpt 2.7
- I'll take the Comet.†
Chpt 2.7
- He looked up uneasily, when they came to switch his engine to the head end of the Comet; he looked up at the red and green lights of the tunnel, hanging in the distance above twenty miles of curves.†
Chpt 2.7
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