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... successful teacher . A stern and shy man , he earned a reputation for eccentricity that followed him to the end of his career . During the ten years at VMI , his first wife , Eleanor , died . She was the daughter of the Rev. George ...
... successful teacher . A stern and shy man , he earned a reputation for eccentricity that followed him to the end of his career . During the ten years at VMI , his first wife , Eleanor , died . She was the daughter of the Rev. George ...
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... successful of these other instruments in one way or another adopted the principle of the hurdy- gurdy : i.e. , vibrating the strings by friction . An instrument of this kind appears in several diagrams in the notebooks of Leonardo da ...
... successful of these other instruments in one way or another adopted the principle of the hurdy- gurdy : i.e. , vibrating the strings by friction . An instrument of this kind appears in several diagrams in the notebooks of Leonardo da ...
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... successful only if maximum benefits have been derived in the area under consideration . For example , a reform would be successful in increasing capital formation if any further effort would result in a decline of net investment . This ...
... successful only if maximum benefits have been derived in the area under consideration . For example , a reform would be successful in increasing capital formation if any further effort would result in a decline of net investment . This ...
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