The North American Review, Volume 218University of Northern Iowa, 1923 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... population of some 8,000,000 gives two per cent of active centres of resentment , without reckoning the vicarious resentment of relatives and friends . Add 23,700 Belgians shot by the Germans or dead in German gaols , and 78,000 whose ...
... population of some 8,000,000 gives two per cent of active centres of resentment , without reckoning the vicarious resentment of relatives and friends . Add 23,700 Belgians shot by the Germans or dead in German gaols , and 78,000 whose ...
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... population render the position of Belgium less simple than that of homogeneous nations ; and the political reasons which make the French Alli- ance acceptable to the country as a whole tend to accentuate the resistance of the Flemings ...
... population render the position of Belgium less simple than that of homogeneous nations ; and the political reasons which make the French Alli- ance acceptable to the country as a whole tend to accentuate the resistance of the Flemings ...
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... huge placards announced to the population of Budapest that the proletariat had assumed supreme power and 1 Quand Israel est Roi . Tharaud . that a large Russian army had crossed the Carpathians to HUNGARY SINCE THE ARMISTICE 27.
... huge placards announced to the population of Budapest that the proletariat had assumed supreme power and 1 Quand Israel est Roi . Tharaud . that a large Russian army had crossed the Carpathians to HUNGARY SINCE THE ARMISTICE 27.
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... population by telling them that a Hungarian Bolshevist army was approaching Russia , brushing aside the enemies of the Soviet , and bringing with it vast droves of hogs for needy Russia . " It would surely have seemed simplest to ...
... population by telling them that a Hungarian Bolshevist army was approaching Russia , brushing aside the enemies of the Soviet , and bringing with it vast droves of hogs for needy Russia . " It would surely have seemed simplest to ...
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... population speaking the Hungarian language found themselves separated from their kin with whom they had lived ... populations of the affected regions . To bring about this — which I am sure would have been a unique triumph of the ...
... population speaking the Hungarian language found themselves separated from their kin with whom they had lived ... populations of the affected regions . To bring about this — which I am sure would have been a unique triumph of the ...
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Page 202 - An idle poet, here and there, Looks round him; but, for all the rest, The world, unfathomably fair, Is duller than a witling's jest. Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach, They read with joy, then shut the book. And some give thanks, and some blaspheme, And most forget; but, either way, That and the Child's unheeded dream Is all the light of all their day.
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Page 544 - There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.
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