Beacon Lights of History: New hall of fame. Premier personalitiesWm. H. Wise, 1924 |
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... friends . But Lloyd George won his fight . When he was through the burden of British taxation had been shifted to unproductive , inherited and ultraprofitable property and the great body of employees , small manufacturers , dealers and ...
... friends . But Lloyd George won his fight . When he was through the burden of British taxation had been shifted to unproductive , inherited and ultraprofitable property and the great body of employees , small manufacturers , dealers and ...
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... friends were able to raise the most potent of all political issues against him . They were able to charge that he was abandoning the rights of France to the foreigner . About the same time Carpentier , the French boxing idol , was ...
... friends were able to raise the most potent of all political issues against him . They were able to charge that he was abandoning the rights of France to the foreigner . About the same time Carpentier , the French boxing idol , was ...
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John Lord. cept that M. Poincare's friends shrewdly made trouble for Mr. Lloyd George with the Turks . f M. Poincare wouldn't come near enough to Mr. Lloyd George for talk and compromise ; the Turk was coming so near to the little ...
John Lord. cept that M. Poincare's friends shrewdly made trouble for Mr. Lloyd George with the Turks . f M. Poincare wouldn't come near enough to Mr. Lloyd George for talk and compromise ; the Turk was coming so near to the little ...
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... without imposing conditions on my part and without exacting promises from them . You can tell that to your Irish friends - you can tell it to De Valera . " Up to this time Mr. Lloyd George had always hedged FLEXIBLE STATECRAFT 49.
... without imposing conditions on my part and without exacting promises from them . You can tell that to your Irish friends - you can tell it to De Valera . " Up to this time Mr. Lloyd George had always hedged FLEXIBLE STATECRAFT 49.
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... terrified that chief with its rigors of handshaking and speechmaking to the point where his friendship with Cope was seriously bent , if not broken . The net result , however , was an enormous demon- FLEXIBLE STATECRAFT 53.
... terrified that chief with its rigors of handshaking and speechmaking to the point where his friendship with Cope was seriously bent , if not broken . The net result , however , was an enormous demon- FLEXIBLE STATECRAFT 53.
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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.