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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...Voltaire, Darwin, and Robert Ingersoll. Pious families in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects t... ...science, or this terrible Higher Criticism that’s ruining our young men in colleges. What we need is to get back to the true Word of God, and a good s... ...ing, that the “hired girl at Howland’s was in trouble.” But when she asked technical questions he did not know how to answer; when she inquired, “Exac... ...h No. 7 north. They explored Minneapolis. Kennicott was conversational and technical regarding gluten and cockle-cylinders and No. I Hard, when they w... ...evated and served as tribal gods the mines, cotton-mills, motor-factories, colleges, army. The East remembered generations when there had been no rail... ... irises, she would have lost her potency. She was born in a hill-smothered Wisconsin village where her father was a prosy minister; she labored throug... ...g time to get near to Nature for once.” Though she became Vida Wutherspoon technically, and though she certainly had no ideals about the indepen- denc...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

... the Great Lakes; and from Green Bay, in canoes, by way of Fox River and the Wisconsin. Marquette had solemnly contracted, on the feast of the Immacul... ...Joliet and Marquette and their five subordinates reached the junction of the Wisconsin with the Mississippi. Mr. Parkman says: ‘Before them a wide and... ...remembering that he was a steamboatman; and he used all sorts of steam boat technicalities in his talk, as if he were so used to them that he forgot ... ... so while he was still a little boy he was sent to “one of them old, ancient colleges”—he couldn’t remember which; and by and by his father died and h... ...ms, thirteen and a half feet. ‘Mark three’ is three fathoms. *”Partner” is a technical term for “the other pilot.” Life on the Mississippi Mark T w... ...said that Cape Girardeau was the Athens of Missouri, and contained sev eral colleges besides those already mentioned; and all of them on a religious ... ... me— a brisk young fellow, who said he was born in a town in the interior of Wisconsin, and had never seen a steamboat until a week before. Also said ... ...l kept park, and many attractive drives; library, reading rooms, a couple of colleges, some handsome and costly churches, and a grand court house, wit... ...nsistent gen eral plan throughout the course of the river. It does not need technical or scientific knowledge to com prehend the elements of the cas...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...Statutes, vol. i. p. 455. The Regents of the University annually visit the colleges and acad- emies, and make their report to the legislature. Their s... ...ture. Their super- intendence is not inefficient, for several reasons: the colleges in order to become corporations stand in need of a charter, which ... ... the political action of the American tribunals without entering into some technical details of their constitution and their forms of proceeding; and ... ...pairing the obligation of that charter. The college was deemed, like other colleges of private foundation, to be a private eleemosynary institution, e... ...n are, or have been, legal practitio- ners, they introduce the customs and technicalities of their profession into the affairs of the country. The jur... ...ion, and of these by far the largest part exist in California, Michi- gan, Wisconsin, Dakota, and New Mexico and Nevada. In New England, Pennsylvania,... ... language of daily life. Many expressions which originally belonged to the technical language of a profession or a party, are thus drawn into general ...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...t of the White House is President’s Square, as it is generally called. The technical name is, I believe, La Fayette Square. The houses round it are fe... ... addition to his already gathered constellations of those Western stars—of Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa; nor did he dream of Texas conquer... ...36. In 1846 Iowa was admit- ted as a free State, and from that day to this Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Oregon, and Kansas have been brought into... ...te and Kansas Rivers, tribu- taries of the Missouri; the Illinois, and the Wisconsin. All these are open to steamers, and all of them traverse re- gio... ...ions not external in their character—highways, railroads, canals, schools, colleges, the relief of paupers, and those thousand other affairs of the wo...

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