The American Review of Reviews, Volume 43Albert Shaw Review of Reviews., 1911 - American literature |
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... carried by the Government at It is notable that the first of the one cent a pound . Under existing rates the postal savings banks , under the Post - Office would be earning large profits law passed last year , will have except for the ...
... carried by the Government at It is notable that the first of the one cent a pound . Under existing rates the postal savings banks , under the Post - Office would be earning large profits law passed last year , will have except for the ...
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... carrying out the great park scheme made pos- sible by certain private gifts . Mr. Perkins , far more than any one ... carry out Mr. Carnegie's ideas are : ( 1 ) of quarrymen , but could invent no way to A scientific study of the cost of ...
... carrying out the great park scheme made pos- sible by certain private gifts . Mr. Perkins , far more than any one ... carry out Mr. Carnegie's ideas are : ( 1 ) of quarrymen , but could invent no way to A scientific study of the cost of ...
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... carried by aviator Brunsuber in a Farman biplane at Johannisthal , Germany .... A monu- ment to General Baron von Steuben is unveiled at Washington , addresses being made by President Taft and the German ambassador . December 8. - The ...
... carried by aviator Brunsuber in a Farman biplane at Johannisthal , Germany .... A monu- ment to General Baron von Steuben is unveiled at Washington , addresses being made by President Taft and the German ambassador . December 8. - The ...
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... carried out . plea for the application of common - sense to street planning , and illustrated his idea of what should not be done by pointing to the city of Washington , America's first and , with the possible exceptions of Detroit and ...
... carried out . plea for the application of common - sense to street planning , and illustrated his idea of what should not be done by pointing to the city of Washington , America's first and , with the possible exceptions of Detroit and ...
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... carried out its completion , until now one of the most perfect transportation sys- tems in the world is being utilized , and a plant R - SIL CULERRA is installed which is as efficient as the genius of. REALIZING THE DREAM OF PANAMA 51.
... carried out its completion , until now one of the most perfect transportation sys- tems in the world is being utilized , and a plant R - SIL CULERRA is installed which is as efficient as the genius of. REALIZING THE DREAM OF PANAMA 51.
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Page 451 - brief candle" to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
Page 592 - Whenever a carrier by railroad shall in competition with a water route or routes reduce the rates on the carriage of any species of freight to or from competitive points, it shall not be permitted to increase such rates unless after hearing by the Interstate Commerce Commission it shall be found that such proposed increase rests upon changed conditions other than the elimination of water competition.
Page 323 - Well, yes ! If you saw us out driving Each day in the Park, four-in-hand ; If you saw poor dear mamma contriving To look supernaturally grand ; If you saw papa's picture, as taken By Brady, and tinted at that, — You'd never suspect he sold bacon And flour at Poverty Flat. And yet just this moment, when sitting In the glare of the grand chandelier, In the bustle and glitter befitting The
Page 585 - The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. It is the representative of his best moments, and all that there has been about him of soft and gentle, and pure and penitent and good, speaks to him for ever out of his English Bible.
Page 451 - I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no "brief candle
Page 585 - It lives on the ear, like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words. It is part of the national mind, and the anchor of national seriousness The memory of the dead passes into it.
Page 565 - If now we can negotiate and put through a positive agreement with some great nation to abide the adjudication of an international arbitral court in every issue which cannot be settled by negotiation, no matter what it involves, whether honor, territory, or money...
Page 441 - In proceeding this day to the signature of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Japan and the United States the undersigned, Japanese Ambassador In Washington, duly authorized by his government, has the honor to declare that the Imperial Japanese Government are fully prepared to maintain with equal effectiveness the limitation and control which they have for the last three years exercised In regulation of the emigration of laborers to the United States.
Page 392 - Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin, Get six pretty maidens to bear up my pall. Put bunches of roses all over my coffin, Put roses to deaden the sods as they fall.
Page 480 - The blood of the brawn beloved of time is unconstraint ; In the need of songs, philosophy, an appropriate native grandopera, shipcraft, any craft, He or she is greatest who contributes the greatest original practical example.