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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... played a decisive part , and the Armistice found us at least on a par with our associates . But what would have been the end if the French or British lines had crumpled at the time of the Caporetto disaster in the fall of 1917 ? It ...
... played a decisive part , and the Armistice found us at least on a par with our associates . But what would have been the end if the French or British lines had crumpled at the time of the Caporetto disaster in the fall of 1917 ? It ...
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... play the game . ' They cannot have observed him very closely in these last six years nor can they have listened to him very attentively . Hoover himself has said : " I am a partisan member of my party . " He has vigorously declared his ...
... play the game . ' They cannot have observed him very closely in these last six years nor can they have listened to him very attentively . Hoover himself has said : " I am a partisan member of my party . " He has vigorously declared his ...
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... playing the fife , the applause and enthusiasms of the crowd as an outlet for human ardor , offend the superiority complex of the Mencken coterie . Mencken , critic in perpetuum , assuages his vexation at our perverse Americanisms with ...
... playing the fife , the applause and enthusiasms of the crowd as an outlet for human ardor , offend the superiority complex of the Mencken coterie . Mencken , critic in perpetuum , assuages his vexation at our perverse Americanisms with ...
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... play the psychological factors which reduced the demand from the business community for loans . Then the level of prices fell from 247 to 138 . What happened , we can see , is that by raising the price - the re - discount rate - for the ...
... play the psychological factors which reduced the demand from the business community for loans . Then the level of prices fell from 247 to 138 . What happened , we can see , is that by raising the price - the re - discount rate - for the ...
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... play after hours ? To a viewer with alarm : Just where do you keep this private detective bureau of yours ? . . . To a speaker who announces he has almost forgotten what he wanted to say : It don't make any difference here . You don't ...
... play after hours ? To a viewer with alarm : Just where do you keep this private detective bureau of yours ? . . . To a speaker who announces he has almost forgotten what he wanted to say : It don't make any difference here . You don't ...
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