The North American Review, Volume 215University of Northern Iowa, 1922 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... seems inevitable , unless the industrial chiefs will otherwise . But many think that the industrial chiefs have planned bankruptcy . At any rate , the flourishing condition of German industry is not consistent with honest bankruptcy ...
... seems inevitable , unless the industrial chiefs will otherwise . But many think that the industrial chiefs have planned bankruptcy . At any rate , the flourishing condition of German industry is not consistent with honest bankruptcy ...
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... seems , of their great adventure . Mustapha Kemal lacks not of friends , for the French have just made peace with him , turning over in return for economic con- cessions Cilicia with its Tarsus plain , one of the richest regions of the ...
... seems , of their great adventure . Mustapha Kemal lacks not of friends , for the French have just made peace with him , turning over in return for economic con- cessions Cilicia with its Tarsus plain , one of the richest regions of the ...
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... seems to proceed through long periods of comparative quiescence , during which the incubation of new forms of human growth takes place , and the rearrangement of the stresses and strains of the human conglomerate accumulates static ...
... seems to proceed through long periods of comparative quiescence , during which the incubation of new forms of human growth takes place , and the rearrangement of the stresses and strains of the human conglomerate accumulates static ...
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... corporations ; the credits granted by the United States Food Corporation and other official bodies ; the purchase of foreign drafts by speculators in foreign exchange , which classification seems to cover all 16 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.
... corporations ; the credits granted by the United States Food Corporation and other official bodies ; the purchase of foreign drafts by speculators in foreign exchange , which classification seems to cover all 16 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.
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in foreign exchange , which classification seems to cover all the male citizens of voting age and some others ; and finally the specu- lative purchase of foreign internal securities . No reliable esti- mates of the aggregate amount of ...
in foreign exchange , which classification seems to cover all the male citizens of voting age and some others ; and finally the specu- lative purchase of foreign internal securities . No reliable esti- mates of the aggregate amount of ...
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Page 182 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 182 - I .did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government — that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution...
Page 846 - And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.
Page 179 - Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote: For him her Old- World moulds aside she threw, And choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true.
Page 834 - Pocahontas' body, lovely as a poplar, sweet as a red haw in November or a pawpaw in May, did she wonder? does she remember? ... in the dust, in the cool tombs? Take any streetful of people buying clothes and groceries, cheering a hero or throwing confetti and blowing tin horns . . . tell me if the lovers are losers . . . tell me if any get more than the lovers ... in the dust ... in the cool tombs.
Page 90 - Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed, Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name combine ? I name thee, O Sakuntala,- and all at once is) said.
Page 525 - The brain of a true Caledonian (if I am not mistaken) is constituted upon quite a different plan. His Minerva is born in panoply. You are never admitted to see his ideas in their growth — if indeed they do grow, and are not rather put together upon principles of clock-work. You never catch his mind in an undress. He never hints or suggests any thing, but unlades his stock of ideas in perfect order and completeness.
Page 834 - COOL TOMBS When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot the copperheads and the assassin ... in the dust, in the cool tombs. And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street, cash and collateral turned ashes ... in the dust, in the cool tombs. Pocahontas' body, lovely as a poplar, sweet as a red haw in November or a pawpaw in May, did she wonder? does she remember? ... in the dust, in the cool tombs? Take any streetful of people buying clothes and groceries, cheering a...
Page 391 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem...
Page 826 - NIGHT SONG AT AMALFI I asked the heaven of stars What I should give my love — It answered me with silence, Silence above. I asked the darkened sea Down where the fishermen go — It answered me with silence, Silence below.