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... live to - day in a time of accelerated inventiveness and innovation , when a decade modifies the material of intercom- munication , in range , swiftness , and intensity alike , far more extensively than did any century before . Within ...
... live to - day in a time of accelerated inventiveness and innovation , when a decade modifies the material of intercom- munication , in range , swiftness , and intensity alike , far more extensively than did any century before . Within ...
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... live without her American colonies , she would probably have put forth her strength and quelled the revolt . She did not do so because her conscience was uneasy , her purpose infirm , and her interests not vitally involved - she could ...
... live without her American colonies , she would probably have put forth her strength and quelled the revolt . She did not do so because her conscience was uneasy , her purpose infirm , and her interests not vitally involved - she could ...
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... lives , approximately 40,000 per million of the population ; Hun- gary in the same period lost 1,500,000 ( about 70,000 per million ) ; the United Kingdom 50,000 ( or about 10,000 per million ) . Add to this loss of lives the under ...
... lives , approximately 40,000 per million of the population ; Hun- gary in the same period lost 1,500,000 ( about 70,000 per million ) ; the United Kingdom 50,000 ( or about 10,000 per million ) . Add to this loss of lives the under ...
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... lives , that world- unity is ' against human nature . ' To substantiate these sweeping negatives , the objecter will adduce a heterogeneous collection of instances to show the confusions and contradictions of the human will , and a ...
... lives , that world- unity is ' against human nature . ' To substantiate these sweeping negatives , the objecter will adduce a heterogeneous collection of instances to show the confusions and contradictions of the human will , and a ...
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... live in an at- mosphere of mutual criticism and cordial coöperation . Consider again the numerous nations in the British Empire , which act in unison through the Imperial Government , imperfect and unrepre- sentative as it is ; consider ...
... live in an at- mosphere of mutual criticism and cordial coöperation . Consider again the numerous nations in the British Empire , which act in unison through the Imperial Government , imperfect and unrepre- sentative as it is ; consider ...
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