The World's Work: A History of Our Time, Volume 20Doubleday, Page & Company, 1910 |
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... months the subject of his soli- tary cogitations was how to get past the Speaker and before the House a slip of paper which he had carried in his pocket until it had become thumbed and dog - eared and creased . That was all that he ...
... months the subject of his soli- tary cogitations was how to get past the Speaker and before the House a slip of paper which he had carried in his pocket until it had become thumbed and dog - eared and creased . That was all that he ...
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... months ago by one of the editors who had made a per- sonal study of the situation- the facts being : ( 1 ) That Liberia is not bankrupt , its debt being only two and a half millions . and the interest being regularly paid . ( 2 ) That ...
... months ago by one of the editors who had made a per- sonal study of the situation- the facts being : ( 1 ) That Liberia is not bankrupt , its debt being only two and a half millions . and the interest being regularly paid . ( 2 ) That ...
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... months ago . Right away , one of the typical prospec- tus booklets was drafted and printed . It is neat but not gaudy . This statement applies only to its physical appearance . Its contents are gaudy but not very " neat . " Some of the ...
... months ago . Right away , one of the typical prospec- tus booklets was drafted and printed . It is neat but not gaudy . This statement applies only to its physical appearance . Its contents are gaudy but not very " neat . " Some of the ...
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... months of the life of this company , a few burning moments . Several of the directors , when they found out by reading the prospectus and the news- papers that they had been made directors , came around and gently removed their names ...
... months of the life of this company , a few burning moments . Several of the directors , when they found out by reading the prospectus and the news- papers that they had been made directors , came around and gently removed their names ...
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... months- the period of flies and mosquitoes - the average American home will be daily endangered by malaria or intestinal diseases , or by both . Yet , in nearly every case , this peril may be reduced almost to the vanishing point by a ...
... months- the period of flies and mosquitoes - the average American home will be daily endangered by malaria or intestinal diseases , or by both . Yet , in nearly every case , this peril may be reduced almost to the vanishing point by a ...
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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...