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... able and too compromising for the more ambitious . It is widely recognised that the best work in this office was done by Mr. Thomas Johnston - an unusually able man with no ambitions south of the Border . In 1941 he instituted an ...
... able and too compromising for the more ambitious . It is widely recognised that the best work in this office was done by Mr. Thomas Johnston - an unusually able man with no ambitions south of the Border . In 1941 he instituted an ...
Page 93
... able to criticise civil servants , it is civil servants who , quite properly , are able to criticise them and even within limits to control them . - In any case what is badly needed is an elected national body which would be in a ...
... able to criticise civil servants , it is civil servants who , quite properly , are able to criticise them and even within limits to control them . - In any case what is badly needed is an elected national body which would be in a ...
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... able to attain some degree of approxi- mation to standard Southern English if they follow good models - what is pitiful are their unsuccessful attempts to imitate a kind of suburban English far inferior to their own . Yet others ...
... able to attain some degree of approxi- mation to standard Southern English if they follow good models - what is pitiful are their unsuccessful attempts to imitate a kind of suburban English far inferior to their own . Yet others ...
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TO OUR ENGLISH BROTHER | 19 |
Demand for a plebiscite | 26 |
HISTORY AND LEGEND | 33 |
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