Its analytical tools range from compact, highly sophisticated units— spectroscopic and gas chromatographic equipment, thermalgravimetric balance, automatic microscopic electronic data accumulator and other hard-named devices to probe coal's nature—to the complete, separately housed coal preparation laboratory used in verifying the sulfur-reduction potential of raw coals.

Various teachers have announced that passages from the classics were to be committed to memory in their schools; but Ruthardt rejects the matter and the manner of these former memorizings.

I gymcel at home with minimum equipment... my father did so with no equipment back in the day (rocky style). Your logic is stupid.

[T]he central figures in the action seem vaguely unrelated to one another, like ships passing in the night.