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If a man is studying how to pay the national debt or to solve the social question or to irrigate Sahara, or is inclined to discover a dirigible airship, a perpetual-motion machine, or a panacea, or if he shows sympathy for people so inclined, he is likely to consider everything possible—and men of this sort are surprisingly numerous.
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Since 1974, the island's airstrip has been used by the US military, as well as for emergency landings.
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We all have to serve an apprenticeship, whatever field we enter.
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Oak saw her, and his first act was to gaze inquiringly and learn how she received this knowledge of the authorship of the work, which to himself had caused considerable astonishment.
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As I closed my eyes in meditation, my consciousness was suddenly transferred to the body of a captain in command of a battleship.
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The day started early, in Austin, with a dawn raid on the home of LoydBlankenship.
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I swopped a book from father’s bookcasefor it, A Kinsman of Mahomet, or Salutary Folly, a scandalous bookpublished in Moscow a hundred years ago, before they had anycensorship.
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The gentes and other subdivisions decided in a body under the chairmanship of the chief, who in all original German courts was only the manager of the transactions and questioner.
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Moreover, Innocent soon had reason to regret his championship of Otto.
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Of course, in the little city states of Greece and in that early Roman state of four hundred square miles, men acquired by talk and observation a sufficient knowledge for the ordinary duties of citizenship, but by the beginning of the Punic Wars the business was already too big and complicated for illiterate men.
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I am the lineal descendant of that infant--I am the rightful Duke of Bridgewater; and here am I, forlorn, torn from my high estate, hunted of men, despised by the cold world, ragged, worn, heartbroken, and degraded to the companionship of felons on a raft!"
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He then held on to the consulship more or less illegally for several years, and in 102 and 101 B.C. repelled a threatening move of the Germans (who thus appear in our history for the first time), who were raiding through Gaul towards Italy.
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Courtship, and the manifestations of the feelings by outward signs and deeds.
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Its condition was almost perfect, and one could have spent hours in studying the striking and puzzlingly untraditional designs - some simply geometrical, and some plainly marine - chased or moulded in high relief on its surface with a craftsmanship of incredible skill and grace.
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Martin had spent most of the day on the phone with her lawyer, her traitorous sister, her mother, and the Ford dealership at which she and her husband had just jointly purchased an Explorer.
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A legacy of unsettled, mostly non-representative rule followed, capped by the dictatorship of Rafael Leonidas TRUJILLO from 1930-61.
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But, be that as it may, what do you think you could do with a real live art directorship if you had it?"
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The editorship of the Adventure Story Magazine was given to Bezenah.
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Therefore,’ said the saint, ‘thou, too, O Mother, rejoice and weepnot, for thy little son is with the Lord in the fellowship of theangels.’
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His fingertip probed it, but barely seemed to sink in at all.
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:GNUMACS: /gnoo'maks/ contraction of `GNU EMACS' Often-heard abbreviated name for the {GNU} project's flagship tool, {EMACS}.
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Returned to England with a reputation for generalship, Sir Arthur Wellesley met with immediate employment.
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To which Sancho replied, "Ever since I have sniffed the governorship I have got rid of the humours of a squire, and I don't care a wild fig for all the duennas in the world."
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The form assumed by the government of liberated Holland was a patrician republic under the headship of the house of Orange.
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The boy got a Director’s Guild “internship” on the Admiral Cook biopic that was filming in Greenland for the next six months.
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I listened to the frail but honeyed words Of one who held a judgeship in that clime, Only to find disgruntlement their source; And now it shames me, who have been cock-sure, That I should failure see emblazoned there.
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He had convinced himself that the peculiar system of kinship in vogue among the Iroquois was common to all the aborigines of the United States, and practised all over the continent, although it was in direct contradiction with all the degrees of relation arising from the connubial system in practice there.
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Chile has increasingly assumed regional and international leadership roles befitting its status as a stable, democratic nation.
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And far on Kish bank the anchored lightship twinkled, winked at Mr Bloom.
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Tajikistan is in the early stages of seeking World Trade Organization membership and has joined NATO's Partnership for Peace.
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An alien mothership hanging off the starboard bow?
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I would have given a good deal to have been able to see the notice-board intact, as it would, perhaps, have given some clue to the ownership of the house.
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We do but name them here because they still afford a large section of mankind scope for sentimental partisanship and mutual annoyance.
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If you will take the debts of the company upon you; return to my father the hundred pounds he has advanced; pay my little personal debts, and give me thirty pounds and a new saddle, I will relinquish the partnership, and leave the whole in your hands."
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But it had become the tradition of British policy to thwart the designs of Russiaheaven knows why!whenever Russia appeared to have a design, and the British foreign office, under the premiership of Lord Beaconsfield, intervened with a threat of war if a considerable restoration of the Turks' facilities for exaction, persecution, and massacre was not made.
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The stones were then to be sold for what they would fetch, and the proceeds were to be applied to the founding of that professorship of experimental chemistry, which the Colonel has since endowed by his Will.
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The tribe grew in the course of ages, as Atkinson showed convincingly in big Primal Law by the gradual toleration by the Old Man of the existence of the younger men, and of their proprietorship in the wives they captured from outside the tribe, and in the tools and ornaments they made, and the game they slew.
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And in a hundred years, this book should seem mindbogglingly archaic and bizarre, and will probably seem far weirder to an audience in 2092 than it ever seemed to the contemporary readership.
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A receivership at this juncture would injure the value of the house imprint very much indeed.
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It was not so long after he had grown exceedingly weary of his underpaid relationship to the World that he heard of something which promised a much better avenue of advancement.
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Shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies, the preponderance of the element of fun in gospel meetings, the glorification of men, trust in religious externalities, quasi-religious fellowships, salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit: these and such as these are the symptoms of an evil disease, a deep and serious malady of the soul.
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A profession implies scholarship; as, the learned professions.
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A spaceship.
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Before the war, trade reform and price liberalization were the most successful part of the country's structural adjustment program under IMF sponsorship.
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Put in a bad alien and you get the Alien films, Independence Day, Predator, Stargate, Starship Troopers.
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Rather the blame is to be laid upon his lack of statesmanship.
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Thought As I sit with others at a great feast, suddenly while the music is playing, To my mind, (whence it comes I know not,) spectral in mist of a wreck at sea, Of certain ships, how they sail from port with flying streamers and wafted kisses, and that is the last of them, Of the solemn and murky mystery about the fate of the President, Of the flower of the marine science of fifty generations founder'd off the Northeast coast and going down--of the steamship Arctic going down, Of the veil'd tableau-women gather'd together on deck, pale, heroic, waiting the moment that draws so close--O the moment!
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give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
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For most countries, this entry presents the date that sovereignty was achieved and from which nation, empire, or trusteeship.
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I had become a pawn in their game of one-upmanship.