The North American Review, Volume 212O. Everett, 1920 - North American review Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... organized as a democracy . From the day of its birth it has been called upon to fight for exist- ence , with its army against the Bolsheviki , with its sanitary forces against typhus ; and at the same time endeavor to revive its ...
... organized as a democracy . From the day of its birth it has been called upon to fight for exist- ence , with its army against the Bolsheviki , with its sanitary forces against typhus ; and at the same time endeavor to revive its ...
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... organization , its dependence upon railroads , quick communication , payrolls and banking which feels at once any deterioration in the public services . To the city people who enjoyed all modern improvements , the pre - war days look ...
... organization , its dependence upon railroads , quick communication , payrolls and banking which feels at once any deterioration in the public services . To the city people who enjoyed all modern improvements , the pre - war days look ...
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... organized society , I have little doubt but that the span of human life could easily be extended well beyond one hun- dred years and , what is more to the point , expanded and much of the sordid misery and the humiliating limitations ...
... organized society , I have little doubt but that the span of human life could easily be extended well beyond one hun- dred years and , what is more to the point , expanded and much of the sordid misery and the humiliating limitations ...
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... organization . He admits that we have done rather well by the spoken drama thus far , but for some reason fears that we cannot keep it up . He believes that we will produce only plays fit for the screen , and that plays fit for the ...
... organization . He admits that we have done rather well by the spoken drama thus far , but for some reason fears that we cannot keep it up . He believes that we will produce only plays fit for the screen , and that plays fit for the ...
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... organized society that will take no steps to safe- guard its best from such disaster . Who is that Shylock who would knowingly and willingly purchase a great poem at the price of such tragedy to a fellow human being ? JEANNETTE MARKS ...
... organized society that will take no steps to safe- guard its best from such disaster . Who is that Shylock who would knowingly and willingly purchase a great poem at the price of such tragedy to a fellow human being ? JEANNETTE MARKS ...
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Page 578 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Page 272 - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Page 592 - Nothing in this Covenant shall be deemed to affect the validity of international engagements, such as treaties of arbitration or regional understandings like the Monroe doctrine, for securing the maintenance of peace.
Page 675 - And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods And mountains, and of all that we behold From this green earth, of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create And what perceive ; well pleased to recognize In Nature and the language of the sense The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being.
Page 579 - I want to take this occasion to say that the United States will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest.
Page 695 - I was sufficiently aware of her infinite supremacy to resign myself, with a childlike confidence, to her guidance through the chaotic world of metaphysical investigation at which I was most busily occupied during the earlier years of our marriage. With how vast a triumph, with how vivid a delight, with how much of all that is ethereal...
Page 141 - Those of the new thought cannot render unto God the things that are God's, and to Caesar the things that are Caesar's.
Page 347 - So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning : for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
Page 36 - I know some will say it is a mingled language. And why not so much the better, taking the best of both the other?
Page 589 - The members of the League undertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all members of the League. In case of any such aggression or in case of any threat or danger of such aggression the Council shall advise upon the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled.