Digest: Review of Reviews Incorporating The Literary Digest, Volume 88Funk and Wagnalls, 1926 |
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... course has been so lawless , so contrary to the building up of an efficient organization , so lacking in team work , so indicative of a desire for publicity at the expense of every one with whom he is associated , that his actions make ...
... course has been so lawless , so contrary to the building up of an efficient organization , so lacking in team work , so indicative of a desire for publicity at the expense of every one with whom he is associated , that his actions make ...
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... course of a recent letter to The Times ( London ) , its chairman , Mr. B. H. Austin , pointed out the difficulty of finding a definition of physical disability such as would debar a person from the right to drive a car . Some years ago ...
... course of a recent letter to The Times ( London ) , its chairman , Mr. B. H. Austin , pointed out the difficulty of finding a definition of physical disability such as would debar a person from the right to drive a car . Some years ago ...
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... course , all novelty , " the very latest . " The play spirit , which the young have vainly sought in the newer forms , has been Mellie's playing to - day was in surroundings such as he had never seen before . The beautiful conservatory ...
... course , all novelty , " the very latest . " The play spirit , which the young have vainly sought in the newer forms , has been Mellie's playing to - day was in surroundings such as he had never seen before . The beautiful conservatory ...
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... course you can see these bright red pouches a long way off , and they look like so many toy balloons in among the bushes . All these birds , the boobies and frigates , build rather foolish- looking nests right on the bushes about two ...
... course you can see these bright red pouches a long way off , and they look like so many toy balloons in among the bushes . All these birds , the boobies and frigates , build rather foolish- looking nests right on the bushes about two ...
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... course we were all terribly scratched with rough - housing , but it was good fun and fine exercise . I lifted up some of the black rocks along the beach at low tide and found a small octopus . Some one took him out of the jar I had put ...
... course we were all terribly scratched with rough - housing , but it was good fun and fine exercise . I lifted up some of the black rocks along the beach at low tide and found a small octopus . Some one took him out of the jar I had put ...
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Page 26 - But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life ; for I am not better than my fathers.
Page 44 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
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Page 70 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 40 - ... the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away "unwept, unhonored, and unsung," no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: "The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.
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