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...olate Chip Cookie Company changed my life-and it also changed the face of American business. I opened the first gourmet chocolate chip cookie store ... ...ith his Lava soap and al­ most removing my skin, having him take me for my monthly Saturday haircut-I treasured those rare moments of being alone wi... ... to partake of because Friday was also the day "the eagle flew"-the black American colloquialism for payday. And when Ruby got to work frying up fis... ...ed shirt and Panama hat now reside in the Smith­ sonian National Museum of American History in the Business Americana Collection. That hat and shirt,... ... selling cookies to Costco. Costco also featured me on the cover of their monthly maga­ zine, The Costeo Connection. The story carried the news that ... ...le Noname. Our new logo made its debut. The readers of Parade and People magazines voted for the winners, and when the final list was announced, my... ...has delighted millions of grossly co-dependent fans with his off-the-wall monthly advice column, " Ask the Swami," and is the winner of the prestigi...

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... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that Ch... ...fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to American waters. 13 Som... ...its strength in a righteous fight. By Anonymous, from MacKellar‘s ―The American Printer‖ 1887 1... ...a wondrous Information Technology made their daily and weekly newspapers, magazines, and books so affordable. It was Ottmar Mergenthaler‘s Linotype... ... analog device he hoped would revolutionize computing. In a 1945 Atlantic Monthly article ―As We May Think,‖ he described a theoretical machine he c...

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...os and cons of daily hair washing. Lacey would read anything, so she added magazines to her pile of books for the week. From then on, in articles like... ...erstand the connection between the ac- tions of two demented criminals and Americans in general, but it didn’t occur to her to challenge Roger’s wisdo... ...only a ser- vice,” he said. “Just like a taxi, except it’s a limo. I pay a monthly fee, and can call for a car whenever I need one.” He took her to 54... ... as a nanny. He’s an aero- nautical engineer, and was poached by the North Americans 47 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE back in the fifties. They moved to Toront... ... the living room, with its shabby, worn furnishings and piles of books and magazines lying hap- hazardly on floors and surfaces. Jana rose from her ki... ...r Conrad Black was guilty, what Tony Blair would do in retirement, whether Americans would ever elect an African-American president, and on and on, wi... ...ise. They moved woodenly through the airport procedures and dozed and read magazines on their journey. They arrived at The Bay Club in San Diego befor...

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...sack anybody, but I'd propose that they should work shifts. However, their monthly pay would drop. I have been forced to lay people off. I have promis... ...began in Lampang City. The new house styles were gleaned from construction magazines, and professional house designers appeared in provincial cities, ... ...or. They must pay bills for water and electricity, children's school fees, monthly payments for the television, fridge, ploughing machine and car... ... ...In accordance with international culture, ever more fashion and interiors magazines are published in Thailand, and their influence reaches everywhere... ...s to use genetic modification to produce and patent a variety suitable for American conditions. Potential cultivation of Jasmine rice by American supe... ...become interested in reading and have literature in their homes other than magazines and comics. In the 1970s, the villages of this book housed scarce... ... produced, and they have rather tended to be TV serials; cinemas show many American movies as is the case elsewhere in Asia. From citizen to gl... ... US army during the Korean war; sex trade has always flourished around all American military bases. In 1983, it was said that there was only one broth...

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...ogy as a commonplace magazine reader who had to get what he could from the monthly reviews, and was glad to meet with any information from nearer the ... ...kind of man who isn’t content with his science, and writes articles in the monthly reviews. Any- how, there it is: you are not going there.” The girl ... ...said Ann Veronica. “It has been proved,” said Miss Miniver, and added, “by American professors.” “But how did they prove it?” “By science,” said Miss ... ...esday she went to the British Museum and hunted first among the half-crown magazines for his essays and then through various scientific quarterlies fo...

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... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that ... ...fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to American waters. Mongols fostered exchange of ideas and inventions The ... ...its strength in a righteous fight. By Anonymous, from MacKellar’s “The American Printer” 1887 1... ...a wondrous Information Technology made their daily and weekly newspapers, magazines, and books so affordable. It was Ottmar Mergenthaler‘s Linoty... ... analog device he hoped would revolutionize computing. In a 1945 Atlantic Monthly article ―As We May Think,‖ he described a theoretical machine he c...

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...er-than-air flying machine actually in the air. There were articles in the monthly magazines of those days proving that flying was impossible. One of ... ...air flying machine actually in the air. There were articles in the monthly magazines of those days proving that flying was impossible. One of the writ... ...rld peace. There are a few special secretaries employed by phil- anthropic Americans, and that is about all. There has been no provision made even for... ... the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of American citizens. He has no mo... ... so suicidal a possibility. America too, it may be, will develop some Pan- American equivalent. Probably the hundred millions of Latin America may ach...

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...youth of missionary parents, earned enough money to pay his expenses at an American college. Equipped with this small sum and the earnestness that the... ...he distinction of translation into more languages, I think, than any other American book; and I suppose that he has as large a per- sonal acquaintance... ...this country, who themselves or whose ancestors went through the school of American slavery, are in a stronger and more hopeful condition, materially,... ...as an organ for which the people told me they were paying sixty dollars in monthly instalments. One fork, and a sixty-dol- lar organ! In most cases th... ...n receiving all kinds of propositions from lecture bureaus, and editors of magazines and pa- pers, to take the lecture platform, and to write articles...

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...st work in that line I ever did in my 1 First magazine publication in Overland Monthly, San Francisco, Jan., 1899. First book publi cation in The Son... ...l in prospect, with a scant six days’ 2 First magazine publication in Overland Monthly, San Francisco, Feb., 1899. First book pub lication in The Son... ...y to shape his mind’s attitude toward 3 First magazine publication in Overland Monthly, San Francisco, June., 1899. First book publication in The Son ... ...he healthy physiques of the Inca pables. Yellow and weak, fleeing from a South American fever hole, he had not broken his flight across the zones, and ... ...fused to ease down his pace and bleated about freedom of contract, independent Americanism, and the dignity of toil, they proceeded to spoil his pace ... ...nce, while Fred die Drummond condemned shirking as vicious, criminal, and un American, and devoted whole chapters to condemnation of the vice. Fredd... ...r, buzzing and humming like some incredible insect. The shots died down as the magazines were emptied, until, quickly, there was no more shooting. The... ... fusillade he had come unscathed. He glanced back. Yes, they had emptied their magazines. He could see several reload ing. Others were running back b... ...oved it in scores of battles. His photographs were in all the physical culture magazines. A groan went up as Spider Hagerty peeled Rivera’s sweater ov...

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...ting place of Edgar Allan Poe, the most interesting and original figure in American letters. And, to sig- nify that peculiar musical quality of Poe’s ... ...s unmortified sense of independence.” And this was the tribute paid by the American public to the master who had given to it such tales of conjuring c... ...s Dickens, although they made him many enemies among the over-puffed minor American writers so mercilessly exposed by him; such poems of beauty and me... ...n years of his literary life Poe was connected with various newspapers and magazines in Richmond, Phila- delphia and New Y ork. He was faithful, punct... ...n years of his literary life Poe was connected with various newspapers and magazines in Richmond, Phila- delphia and New Y ork. He was faithful, punct... ...because a magazine to which he was to contribute had agreed to pay him $20 monthly for two pages of criticism. Those were discouraging times in Americ...

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...s, it is said, What a spec- tacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Pleni- potentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane som... ...ld fly cheerfully with lighted matches, and fire cannon; fire whole powder-magazines? To sit and die of deficit is no part of Lomenie’s plan. The evil... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...ning forth perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Con- gress, do the arrangements seem perfect. A Senator has not hi... ... ‘canvass shirt’ (sarreau de toile) about him; Chateau-Vieux bursts up the magazines; distributes ‘three thousand fusils’ to a Patriot people: Austria... ...renewed and changed from period to period; a fourth part of them going out monthly. The Convention will no more lie un- der bondage of Committees, und...

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...THE POST-OFFICE .................................................................................................................... 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS................................................................................................................. 290 CHAPTER XV: LITERATURE ........................................................................

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............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...o believe in the one or in the other. For myself, I have much faith in the American character, but I cannot believe either in Washington City or in th... ...” and I must say she was very nice, pretty, and clean. I have always found American sailors on their men- of-war to be clean and nice looking—as much ... ...n part, or of other materials, are to be taxed—provided always that books, magazines, pamphlets, newspapers, and reviews shall not be regarded as manu... ...uest can contrive to eat. This is the price for chance guests. The cost to monthly boarders is, I believe, not more than the half of this. Ten shillin...

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...ve a good time in her. You were—” “Well, I discovered I was too much of an American to be content to be a rich man’s son. You aren’t blaming me for th... ...riage!” Sophie exclaimed, a little awed; for to them the joke, which to an American means work, was only just beginning. “If it’s took in a proper spi... ...as his present keen interest. They set off to look at it, and the imported American scraper which had blighted the none too sunny soul of “Skim” Winsh... ... to what marks the male grub was expected to grow; and two-inch deep honey-magazines, empty, but still magnificent, the whole gummed and glued into tw... ...C. . B. C. T HE STORY of the recent Cretan crisis, as told in the A. B. C. Monthly Report, is not without humour. Till the 25th October Crete, as all ...

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..................................................................... 182 THE AMERICAN POPULATION .......................................................... ...ory of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten years ahead of... ...lf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in aeronautics... ...ipline and details of the battle and each other’s little weaknesses in the monthly maga- zines. This is a desirable but improbable anticipation. No ho... ...f supplying the national youth with free but thumby copies of the sixpenny magazines. He would consider that all that was needed for his library was, ... ...se may seem wanton charges to some, but I am not speaking without my book. Monthly I am brought into close contact with the pedagogic intelligence thr... ...ct with the pedagogic intelligence through the medium of three educational magazines. A certain morbid habit against which I struggle in vain makes me... ...criticism in those new and curious organs of public thought, the ten- cent magazines; and on the other it is making a constantly more solid basis of c...

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...: It is not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and wellinformed) seldom adopt and steadily persever... ... their most specious declamations. The valuable improve- ments made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cann... ... with painful solicitude. They foresee the dangers that may threaten their American dominions from the neighbor- hood of States, which have all the di... ...tures of the States in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings. ‘’The indispen... ...nd expedient, as in some instances it actually has been, daily, weekly, or monthly, as well as annual; and if circum- stances may require a deviation ...

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...ent the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this repo...

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...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ...pants in the planes operation. For instance, he collected Western aviation magazines; tele- phone directories for American cities such as San Diego an... ...t in finding a bride, and KSM reportedly went so far as to promise Hazmi a monthly stipend of $700 in the event he succeeded in marrying. Intelligence...

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...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the as... ...s in the least breath of time one of those 25 Memories and Portraits rich magazines of life on which we drew for our supply – when he who had first d... ...should be able, upon my compact income of twelve pounds per annum, payable monthly, to meet my share in the expense. It was a comfort- able thought to...