The North American Review, Volume 225University of Northern Iowa, 1928 - North American review Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... believe if we had had a standing army of 40,000 true men last January , the present disastrous condition which has overtaken the country would never have befallen it . However , in 1861 there were but few who realized that untrained ...
... believe if we had had a standing army of 40,000 true men last January , the present disastrous condition which has overtaken the country would never have befallen it . However , in 1861 there were but few who realized that untrained ...
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... believe we will have war the coming year , —no war this year , nor next year , nor the year after . I doubt if there will be any during this century or perhaps the early years of the next century . Within a few days more than two years ...
... believe we will have war the coming year , —no war this year , nor next year , nor the year after . I doubt if there will be any during this century or perhaps the early years of the next century . Within a few days more than two years ...
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... believe that each war is the last , and many of us are perhaps in the same attitude of mind as was Mr. Dies when in the House of Representatives on January 18 , 1913 , he said : God has placed us upon this great , rich continent ...
... believe that each war is the last , and many of us are perhaps in the same attitude of mind as was Mr. Dies when in the House of Representatives on January 18 , 1913 , he said : God has placed us upon this great , rich continent ...
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... believe that there is now under consideration by the leading European Powers an entire re - shuffle of certain Spheres of Influence around the Mediter- ranean Sea . That does not concern us ; but we and our children's children are ...
... believe that there is now under consideration by the leading European Powers an entire re - shuffle of certain Spheres of Influence around the Mediter- ranean Sea . That does not concern us ; but we and our children's children are ...
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... believe in Country and Flag - foolish America ! disgruntled Mencken ! Patriotism heads Mencken's list of bourgeois offences . To be a patriot is to stir the risibles of advanced thinkers . How arrogant of America to value her ...
... believe in Country and Flag - foolish America ! disgruntled Mencken ! Patriotism heads Mencken's list of bourgeois offences . To be a patriot is to stir the risibles of advanced thinkers . How arrogant of America to value her ...
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Page 97 - The heavens declare the glory of God: And the firmament showeth His handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge.
Page 458 - Commission shall as soon as practicable prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railway properties of the continental United States into a limited number of systems.
Page 295 - On my honor I will do my best: 1. To do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the Scout law. 2. To help other people at all times. 3. To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
Page 21 - That when any harbor or other place in the American continents is so situated that the occupation thereof for naval or military purposes might threaten the communications or the safety of the United States, the Government of the United States could not see without grave concern the possession of such harbor or other place by any corporation or association which has such a relation to another Government, not American, as to give that Government practical power of control for naval or military purposes.
Page 373 - Whoever by words, either spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation, or otherwise, brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards...
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Page 21 - Resolved that when any harbor or other place in the American continents is so situated that the occupation thereof for naval or military purposes might threaten the communications or the safety of the United States, the Government of the United States could not see, without grave concern, the possession of such harbor or other place by any corporation or association which has such a relation to another Government, not American, as to give that Government practical power of control for national purposes.
Page 4 - I give it as my fixed opinion that but for our graduated cadets the war between the United States and Mexico might and probably would have lasted four or five years with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share ; whereas in less than two campaigns, we conquered a great country and a peace without the loss of a single battle or skirmish.
Page 280 - Those refined and gentle manners which are the expression of fixed habits of thought and of action. 3. The power and habit of reflection. 4. The power of intellectual growth. 5. Efficiency, the power to do.
Page 458 - If after such hearing the Commission finds that the public interest will be promoted by the...