The North American Review, Volume 225University of Northern Iowa, 1928 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... hold and augment all those elements which have combined in two successive campaigns to give the Repub- licans their unprecedented majorities . The chieftains of my party may be content to play for the stake of a single term more of ...
... hold and augment all those elements which have combined in two successive campaigns to give the Repub- licans their unprecedented majorities . The chieftains of my party may be content to play for the stake of a single term more of ...
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... hold the crop until orders arrive from consumers . Manufac- turers , too , can lay off their workers and shut down their plants when prices fall , and take them on again and start up their plants when prices rise ; and they have learned ...
... hold the crop until orders arrive from consumers . Manufac- turers , too , can lay off their workers and shut down their plants when prices fall , and take them on again and start up their plants when prices rise ; and they have learned ...
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... , they made him what he is today . Certainly without the aid of their timely bursts of laughter he would be hard pressed to hold up his end of a debate in municipal government . The chorus is as essential MEET THE MAYOR 43.
... , they made him what he is today . Certainly without the aid of their timely bursts of laughter he would be hard pressed to hold up his end of a debate in municipal government . The chorus is as essential MEET THE MAYOR 43.
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... hold and upset and reform our whole scheme of living . In other words , one is no trouble to us ; and the other is . You will notice that those people the scientists - to whom Relativity is a trouble raise enough row about it ; just as ...
... hold and upset and reform our whole scheme of living . In other words , one is no trouble to us ; and the other is . You will notice that those people the scientists - to whom Relativity is a trouble raise enough row about it ; just as ...
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... hold converse on grave matters of importance : it makes itself the center , and everybody has to stop talking to listen more or less politely to its babbling , and must forego doing things in deference to the limitations of its ...
... hold converse on grave matters of importance : it makes itself the center , and everybody has to stop talking to listen more or less politely to its babbling , and must forego doing things in deference to the limitations of its ...
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Page 97 - The heavens declare the glory of God: And the firmament showeth His handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge.
Page 458 - Commission shall as soon as practicable prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railway properties of the continental United States into a limited number of systems.
Page 295 - On my honor I will do my best: 1. To do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the Scout law. 2. To help other people at all times. 3. To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
Page 21 - That when any harbor or other place in the American continents is so situated that the occupation thereof for naval or military purposes might threaten the communications or the safety of the United States, the Government of the United States could not see without grave concern the possession of such harbor or other place by any corporation or association which has such a relation to another Government, not American, as to give that Government practical power of control for naval or military purposes.
Page 373 - Whoever by words, either spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation, or otherwise, brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards...
Page 491 - You may estimate your capacity for Comic perception by being able to detect the ridicule of them you love, without loving them less : and more by being able to see yourself somewhat ridiculous in dear eyes, and accepting the correction their image of you proposes.
Page 21 - Resolved that when any harbor or other place in the American continents is so situated that the occupation thereof for naval or military purposes might threaten the communications or the safety of the United States, the Government of the United States could not see, without grave concern, the possession of such harbor or other place by any corporation or association which has such a relation to another Government, not American, as to give that Government practical power of control for national purposes.
Page 4 - I give it as my fixed opinion that but for our graduated cadets the war between the United States and Mexico might and probably would have lasted four or five years with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share ; whereas in less than two campaigns, we conquered a great country and a peace without the loss of a single battle or skirmish.
Page 280 - Those refined and gentle manners which are the expression of fixed habits of thought and of action. 3. The power and habit of reflection. 4. The power of intellectual growth. 5. Efficiency, the power to do.
Page 458 - If after such hearing the Commission finds that the public interest will be promoted by the...