The World's Work: A History of Our Time, Volume 20Doubleday, Page & Company, 1910 |
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... called " trusts " can and do call upon the banking overlords , and their industrial demands are at times imperative enough to outbid even the demands made by personal financial ambitions , personal avarice , and personal whims . The ...
... called " trusts " can and do call upon the banking overlords , and their industrial demands are at times imperative enough to outbid even the demands made by personal financial ambitions , personal avarice , and personal whims . The ...
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... called the Conserva- tion situation - something somewhat less than satisfying ; and when the race is run , we bet our money on the Sentimentalist . And if we win that wager , we will bet both capital and winnings that the American ...
... called the Conserva- tion situation - something somewhat less than satisfying ; and when the race is run , we bet our money on the Sentimentalist . And if we win that wager , we will bet both capital and winnings that the American ...
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... called forth most extraordinary eccentricities of opposition . The main facts are these : Here is a man with a colossal fortune , already the most generous giver of wisely - directed gifts per- haps in the whole history of philanthrophy ...
... called forth most extraordinary eccentricities of opposition . The main facts are these : Here is a man with a colossal fortune , already the most generous giver of wisely - directed gifts per- haps in the whole history of philanthrophy ...
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... called in a young man in town whom he knew fairly well . This young man was connected with a life- insurance agency , had been the secretary of a high public official , and had originally come from the newspaper ranks a good combination ...
... called in a young man in town whom he knew fairly well . This young man was connected with a life- insurance agency , had been the secretary of a high public official , and had originally come from the newspaper ranks a good combination ...
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... called in to create the business struc- ture of telephony and to shape the general plan of its development . Since then he had done many things . The one city of Buenos Ayres had paid him more , merely for giving it a system of trolleys ...
... called in to create the business struc- ture of telephony and to shape the general plan of its development . Since then he had done many things . The one city of Buenos Ayres had paid him more , merely for giving it a system of trolleys ...
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Página 13230 - We will never bring disgrace to this our city by any act of dishonesty or cowardice, nor ever desert our suffering comrades in the ranks; we will fight for the ideals and sacred things of the city, both alone and with many...
Página 13169 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Página 13439 - See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah : and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship...
Página 12929 - If Germany were extinguished to-morrow, the day after to-morrow there is not an Englishman in the world who would not be the richer. Nations have fought for years over a city or a right of succession ; must they not fight for two hundred and fifty million pounds of yearly commerce...
Página 13230 - We will fight for the ideals and sacred things of the City both alone and with many. We will revere and obey the City's laws and do our best to incite a like respect and reverence in those above us who are prone to annul or set them at naught.
Página 13230 - We will revere and obey the City's laws and do our best to incite a like respect and reverence in those above us who are prone to annul or set them at naught. We will strive unceasingly to quicken the public's sense of civic duty. Thus, in all these ways, we will transmit this City not only not less but greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.
Página 12897 - For why ? — because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.
Página 12922 - But the direct military expenditures are estimated at figures varying from a billion and a quarter to a billion and a half of dollars. This of course takes no account of the paralysis of productive industry, trade, and commerce or of the destruction of existing economic values. Yet great and momentous results have been achieved. Although seated again in his ancient capital of Adrianople, the Moslem has been expelled from...
Página 13232 - Sticky fly paper, traps and liquid poisons are among the things to use in killing flies, but the latest, cheapest and best is a solution of formalin or formaldehyde in water. A spoonful of this liquid put into a quarter of a pint of water and exposed in the room will be enough to kill all the flies.
Página 13107 - It has been a subject of profound regret to the Government and people of the United States that a court of arbitral justice composed of permanent judges and acting under a sense of judicial responsibility representing the various judicial systems of the world and capable of insuring continuity in arbitral jurisprudence...