Beacon Lights of History: New hall of fame. Premier personalitiesWm. H. Wise, 1924 |
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... French boxing idol , was beaten by Jack Dempsey , the American heavyweight , and some of the lyrical French reporters of the battle declared that it was due to the hypnotic influence of Dempsey's fighting eye . With Briand ruined by ...
... French boxing idol , was beaten by Jack Dempsey , the American heavyweight , and some of the lyrical French reporters of the battle declared that it was due to the hypnotic influence of Dempsey's fighting eye . With Briand ruined by ...
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... French family . General Joffre likewise hails from the south of France . Another splendid soldier , de Castelnau ... French revolution guillotined most of the French nobility , and confiscated the property of the rich . Grandfather Foch ...
... French family . General Joffre likewise hails from the south of France . Another splendid soldier , de Castelnau ... French revolution guillotined most of the French nobility , and confiscated the property of the rich . Grandfather Foch ...
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... French family . General Joffre likewise hails from the south of France . Another splendid soldier , de Castelnau ... French revolution guillotined most of the French nobility , and confiscated the property of the rich . Grandfather Foch ...
... French family . General Joffre likewise hails from the south of France . Another splendid soldier , de Castelnau ... French revolution guillotined most of the French nobility , and confiscated the property of the rich . Grandfather Foch ...
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... French Armies in the Field . In their second year at the school Joffre and Foch both passed an examination which abbreviated their course , in order that they might help fill the officer gaps in the newly reorganized French army ...
... French Armies in the Field . In their second year at the school Joffre and Foch both passed an examination which abbreviated their course , in order that they might help fill the officer gaps in the newly reorganized French army ...
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... French Indo - China and Madagascar , while he remained quietly at home , working away at his studies of that military past which must be used to illuminate the future and form the mind which can cope with emergencies . He probably knew ...
... French Indo - China and Madagascar , while he remained quietly at home , working away at his studies of that military past which must be used to illuminate the future and form the mind which can cope with emergencies . He probably knew ...
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Page 183 - The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! "Where burning Sappho loved and sung, — Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 19 - John Brown's body lies amouldering in the grave, But his soul goes marching on.
Page 19 - mongst the rest they placed the arts divine. But this weak knot they will full soon untie, The Greeks did nought, but play the fools and lie. Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are Men have precedency and still excel, It is but vain unjustly to wage war; Men can do best, and women know it well.
Page 19 - I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits, A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong; For such despite they cast on female wits: If what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance.
Page 153 - While we were standing about discussing this last flight, a sudden strong gust of wind struck the machine and began to turn it over. Everybody made a rush for it.
Page 247 - The result of that struggle we leave in God's hand. Perhaps it is His will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation, yea, even through the valley of the shadow of death, to a better future and a brighter day.
Page 153 - After long arguments, we often found ourselves in the ludicrous position of each having been converted to the other's side, with no more agreement than when the discussion began. It was not till several months had passed, and every phase of the problem had been thrashed over and over, that the various reactions began to untangle themselves.
Page 153 - This flight lasted only 12 seconds but it was nevertheless the first in the history of the world in which a machine carrying a man had raised itself by its own •power into the air in full flight' had sailed forward without reduction of speed and had finally landed at a point as high as that from which it started.
Page 153 - As a result, the machine would rise suddenly to about ten feet and then as suddenly dart for the ground. A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
Page 19 - So with a sudden effort I sprang out of bed and found in the dimness an old stump of a pen which I remembered to have used the day before. I scrawled the verses almost without looking at the paper.