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...s engaged George A. Murray of Springfield, to decorate the gymnasium as in former years. The color scheme will be yellow and white. The caterer will b... ...nly that you are loyal Williams men, striving for the ad- vancement of the Grand Old Royal Purple. " CHB average man would be astoaished to tee the ma... ...treet North Adams Telsfhonb 245-3 OBITUARIES '57 —Simeon Howard Calhoun, a former mayor of Nebraska city, died in Denver, -Col. on March 4, at the age... ...f the disease—such ns rigid- ity of ijody and backward arching of head and trunk. The escajie of the demon from the body was usually represented by a ... ...edical profession, died of apoplexy when about to sit down to a banquet of Grand Army men at Saratoga, N. Y.. on March 20. Mr. Root was born at North ... ...at present then impractical; o balance must be obtained between the forces operating on the educa- tional system. To increase ma- lerinlly the size of... ... campus, how much greater offence can be attributed to the light and power companies who invade Main street with unsightly poles and ponderous telepho... ...of time and interest accorded to in- toroollegiate athletics is the policy operating in the case of basketball as well as, in tjhp other athletio braa... ...w York city, Mr. Barney was direc- tor in more than forty mortgage holding companies, trust compan- ies and mining companies. He was president of the ...

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... from human psychology and, thus, from reality. Managers will always rob blind the companies they run. They will always manipulate boards to collud... ...there. Consider taxpayers and their government. Contrary to conservative lore, the former want the government to tax them providing they share in t... ...l those of established hierarchies and institutions ("dual power"). Gradually, the former will replace the latter. The evolution of certain non-gov... ...ix Days War was a war of self defence - but the swift victory only exacerbated the grandiose fantasies of the Jews. Mastery over the Palestinians b... ... for instance. To run Java applets, a "virtual machine" needs to be embedded in the operating system. These phases closely resemble the development ... ...te the same functions to the Universe (to Nature). It is perceived by them to be a grand, perfected, design, or mechanism. Humans fit into this mec... ...empirically fixed at 10% of the market in any one good or service. In other words: companies should be encouraged to capture up to 10% of their mar... ...rust laws was the Havana Charter of 1947. It called for the creation of an umbrella operating organization (the International Trade Organization or ... ... peppered moths in Britain were silvery gray, indistinguishable from lichen-covered trunks of silver birches - their habitat. Darker moths were gob...

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... from human psychology and, thus, from reality. Managers will always rob blind the companies they run. They will always manipulate boards to collud... ...there. Consider taxpayers and their government. Contrary to conservative lore, the former want the government to tax them providing they share in t... ...l those of established hierarchies and institutions ("dual power"). Gradually, the former will replace the latter. The evolution of certain non-gov... ...ix Days War was a war of self defence - but the swift victory only exacerbated the grandiose fantasies of the Jews. Mastery over the Palestinians b... ... for instance. To run Java applets, a "virtual machine" needs to be embedded in the operating system. These phases closely resemble the development ... ...te the same functions to the Universe (to Nature). It is perceived by them to be a grand, perfected, design, or mechanism. Humans fit into this mec... ...empirically fixed at 10% of the market in any one good or service. In other words: companies should be encouraged to capture up to 10% of their mar... ...rust laws was the Havana Charter of 1947. It called for the creation of an umbrella operating organization (the International Trade Organization or ... ... peppered moths in Britain were silvery gray, indistinguishable from lichen-covered trunks of silver birches - their habitat. Darker moths were gob...

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...fore sunset. On the Little Isabel an old ragged palm, with a thick bulging trunk rough with spines, a very witch amongst palm trees, rustles a dismal ... ... with a wide spread of shade at the foot of 15 Joseph Conrad their smooth trunks. A ravine extending the whole length of the island is full of bushes... ..., red face, Charles Gould looked like a new arrival from over the sea. His grandfather had fought in the cause of independence under Bolivar, in that ... ...n her simple, white frock, almost like a lost child crying in the degraded grandeur of the noble hall, while he stood by her, again perfectly motionle... ... country.” His front teeth having been knocked out in some accident of his former herdsman’s life, his ut- terance was spluttering and indistinct. He ... ...ld be most useful at a distance, in Sulaco. His name, his connections, his former position, his ex- perience commanded the respect of his class. The d... ... to have you shot?’” To which my subordinate, who, it appears, was himself operating, remarked that it would not bring the cars up. Upon that, the oth... ... long building was surrounded by troops, which were already piling arms by companies and preparing to pass the night lying on the ground in their ponc... ...terprise—in railways, in mines, in sugar estates, in cotton mills, in land companies, in each and every undertaking—as the price of his pro- tection. ...

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...hether the whistle was blowing for twelve or for one o’clock. He hoped the former. Early that morning he had decided to make a long excursion through ... ... loon to the restaurant, and from the restaurant to the Plaza, relics of a former generation, standing for a different or- der of things, absolutely i... ...sta held the grant of Los Muertos in those days,” the centenarian said; “a grand man. He had the power of life and death over his people, and there wa... ...ppointed.” “And the girl?” demanded Presley. “She never knew. Ah, he was a grand gentleman, De La Cuesta. Always he treated her as a queen. Never was ... ...d S. Behrman calmly, “we wouldn’t be able to earn sufficient money to meet operating expenses or fixed charges, to say nothing of a surplus left over ... ...g of unwilling tribute to his commanding genius, to the colossal intellect operating the width of an entire con- tinent than the president and owner o... ...anamee was silent for a moment, looking off with unseeing eyes between the trunks of the pear trees, over the little valley. 114 The Octopus “That ma... ...he office; and Annixter, after tying his horse to the ring driven into the trunk of one of the eucalyptus trees, came up to the porch, and, taking off... ...ful. Soon the entire number of Annixter’s guests found them- selves in two companies, the dancers on the floor of the barn, frolicking through the las...

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...present achievements and his probable destinies: especially upon England’s grandeur, vitality, stability, her intelligent appreciation of her place in... ...cloud overhead. Surely a scene pretending to sublimity? Gazeing along that grand highway of the voyageing forest, your London citizen of good estate h... ...ard- ice, he says.’ ‘Oh, be hanged!’ interrupted Fenellan. ‘As much of the former as you like. He ‘s right about our “individualismus” being another n... ...en a bulwark to your friends.’ ‘ All, Fenellan, all-stocks, shares, mines, companies, indus- tries at home and—abroad—all, at a sweep, to have the wom... ... of greensward, all but touching up to the sunset to draw it to the dance. Formerly, in his very early youth, he clasped a dream of gain- ing way to a... ... of all likeness to the urgent insistency of Victor Radnor’s punctu- ating trunk of the puffing frame at almost every bar—an Apollo brilliancy in ener... ...; affectionate, ferocious; frivolous, tenacious; the passion of the season operating like sun or moon on these qualities; and they can reach to ideali... ...t the Rev. gentle- man carries his musical instrument at the bottom of his trunk.’ She smiled: ‘And who are in the cab?’ ‘Your fiddles are in the cab,... ...time the latter gentleman did his part at the tables of the wealthier City Companies, and retained his appearance of health; he was beginning to think...

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...l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362 87 The Grand Armada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366 88 Schoo... ...ise a great many Whales and other monsters of the sea, appeared. Among the former, one was of a most monstrous size. * * This came towards us, open mo... ...s or swims, And seems a moving land; and at his gills Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out a sea.” Ibid. “The mighty whales which swim in a sea of wa... ...ved; there — pointing to the sea — is a green pasture where our children’s grand children will go for bread.” Obed Macy’s History of Nantucket. “I bui... ...is the chief element he employs? There stand his trees, each with a hollow trunk, as if a hermit and a crucifix were within; and here sleeps his meadow... ...barks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring... ...as not the only strange feature of the place, borrowed from the chaplain’s former sea farings. Between the marble cenotaphs on either hand of the pulp... ... 120 Chapter 26 Knights and Squires Men may seem detestable as joint stock companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may h... ...rinci ple of light, for ever remains white or colorless in itself, and if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all objects, even tulips ...

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...ty, but fear now extorts a larger tribute of obedience than that which was formerly paid by reverence and by love. I perceive that we have destroyed t... ...ich controls it, and his egotism is no less blind than his devotedness was formerly. If society is tranquil, it is not be- cause it relies upon its st... ...d the separa- tion of land and water, mountains and valleys. A simple, but grand, arrangement is discoverable amidst the confusion of objects and the ... ... their way through the mass of dying trees; they crept along their bending trunks, found nourishment in their dusty cavities, and a passage beneath th... ...d the separa- tion of land and water, mountains and valleys. A simple, but grand, arrangement is discoverable amidst the confusion of 35 Tocqueville ... ...upon its so- cial state. They have, moreover, a sure and uniform manner of operating upon society, affecting, as it were, generations yet unborn. Thro... ...because they had studied the laws, or because they were prohibited from co-operating in the work of legislation. Five hundred years ago the English no... ...stantly form associations. They have not only commercial and manufacturing companies, in which all take part, but associations of a thousand other kin... ...t into an infinite number of parcels, so that it can only be cultivated by companies of husbandmen, will it be necessary that the head of the governme...

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...ise a great many Whales and other monsters of the sea, appeared. Among the former, one was of a most mon- strous size. ... This came towards us, open-... ...bserved: there—pointing to the sea—is a green pasture where our children’s grand-children will go for bread.” —Obed Macy’ s History of Nantucket. “I b... ... the chief element he em- ploys? There stand his trees, each with a hollow trunk, as if a hermit and a crucifix were within; and here sleeps his meado... ... else. And, doubtless, my going on this whaling voyage, formed part of the grand programme of Providence that was drawn up a long time ago. It came in... ...an’s bag, containing the harpooneer’s wardrobe, no doubt in lieu of a land trunk. Likewise, there was a parcel of outlandish bone fish hooks on the sh... ...rks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insur- ance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring... ...as not the only strange feature of the place, borrowed from the chaplain’s former sea-farings. Be- tween the marble cenotaphs on either hand of the pu... ...ose the fall of valour in the soul. Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may h... ...principle of light, for ever remains white or colourless in itself, and if operating without medium upon mat- ter, would touch all objects, even tulip...

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...y’s first school was at Ottery St. Mary, in Devonshire, of which his great-grandfather and great-uncle had both been head-masters. There was much to m... ...een head-masters. There was much to make Ottery homelike to Coley, for his grandparents lived at Heath’s Court, close to the church, and in the manor-... ...r, 1842, some severe spasmodic attacks made her family anxious; and as the railway communication was still incomplete, so that the journey to London w... ... jolly old fellow. He has white frizzle hair and large white whiskers. The former, I suspect, is a wig. The cheering was tremendous, but behind the ro... ... was difficult to see how this latter advantage could fail to outweigh the former defect; and everybody knew that they can’t find a lawyer to fill you... ... wish you could see the tree-ferns; some are quite twenty feet high in the trunk, for trunk it is, and the great broad frond waves over it in a way th... ...gan to come off to the vessel, little craft consisting of no more than the trunk of a tree hollowed out, seldom more than a foot broad, and perhaps ei... ...astes and modes of thought—a few such men, agreeing well to- gether and co-operating heartily, will probably be enabled to 375 Yo n g e lay foundatio... ...he knowledge of the thought which, in the mind of an accurate thinker, ac- companies the utterance of the word. ‘I should think that three-fourths of ...

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...view; they won’t wait for truth; you may as well reason with the sea, or a railway train, as in such a case with an editor; and, as it makes no differ... ...cked oli- garchy, and in the other half by his blind hatred of Caesar; the grandeur of whose nature he could not comprehend, and the real patriotism o... ... In Rousseau there is not even so much. In the whole work there is nothing grandly affecting but the character and the inex- plicable misery of the wr... ...ive my vote (and, if I had a thousand votes, to give all my votes) for the former. Fresh from such a training as this, and at a time when his addition... ...” I settled that, henceforwards, it must go through the post office. In my former captures, there had been nothing special or worthy of commemoration ... ...pon which my brother’s rapid eye saw instantly the opportunity offered for operating most effectually by a charge. O. saw it too; and, happening to ha... ... other radii still more vast, both by land and by sea, the same suction is operating, night and day, summer and winter, and hurrying forever into one ... ...- lantly threw themselves upon the most trying services in ad- vance. Some companies of the Donegal militia, not muster- ing above 200 men, marched im... ...esses the harsh tearing asunder of the fibres, caused by the weight of the trunk in falling; beginning slowly, in- creasing rapidly, and terminating i...

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... their ringing; and a clumsy, untidy man came out and fetched Philip’s tin trunk and his play-box. They were shown into the drawing-room; it was fille... ...e all country cler - gymen: there were boys in the school whose fa- thers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers, had been educated there and had all been ... ...een to a play in his life till then (poor 147 W. Somerset Maugham touring companies sometimes came to the As- sembly Rooms at Blackstable, but the Vi... ...licitor explained that the growth of modern businesses and the increase of companies had led to the formation of many firms of accoun- tants to examin... ...r me I could have given you some hints. I suppose you thought yourself too grand.” “No, it wasn’t that. I was afraid you’d think me a nuisance.” “When... ...h them, and after luncheon Philip went up with her to Highbury . She had a trunk for her 432 Of Human Bondage clothes and another for the various odd... ... he stood in the well of the theatre, in a white jacket, ready to hand the operating surgeon any instrument he wanted or to sponge the blood away so t... ...emed to have a passion for appendicitis, and a good many cases came to the operating theatre for this complaint: the surgeon for whom Philip dressed w... ...d picked in a day , but they complained you could not make money now as in former times: then they paid you a shilling for five bush- els, but now the...

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...who are loud in acknowledging the amusement which they have derived from a former paper of mine, ‘On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts;’ at th... ...ople, trained and equipped for the service. In the case of a fire which is operating upon private property, pity for a neighbor’s calam- ity checks us... ...straint, we go on to consider it as a stage spectacle. Exclamations of—How grand! How magnificent! arise in a sort of rapture from the crowd. For inst... ..., that rested in the centre of London, self-supported by his own conscious grandeur, as a domestic Attila, or ‘scourge of God;’ this man, that walked ... ...ue it is, and disgraceful enough, that Pope (like modern contractors for a railway or a loan) let off to sub-contractors several por- tions of the und... ...one or both of the executors had offered him (the river) a huge travelling trunk, perhaps an Imperial or a Salisbury boot (equal to the wardrobe of a ... ...uch poor machinery as nature had allowed him, to take the soundings of the trunk, but apparently there were none; with his middle finger he could find... ...GE GE GE EVERY THING IN OUR DAYS IS NEW. Roads, for instance, which, being formerly ‘of the earth earthy,’ and therefore perish- able, are now iron, a... ...sisted in living’ too long for the peace of an annuity office. So fare all companies East and West, and all annuity offices, that stand opposed in int...

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... servants; and a little boy, christened Harry Lepel Richmond, the squire’s grandson. Riversley Grange lay in a rich watered hollow of the Hampshire he... ...him and retain him at the same time: but the stranger plucked him from his grandfather’s hold, and swinging him high, exclaimed, ‘Here he is! This is ... ...e links of my familiarity with him when he left us on a short visit to his trunks and portman- teaux, and had to lean on Temple, who tickled but rejoi... ... might pass condoned or cloaked by general compassion. How stood it in the former? I had dragged her down to the duellist’s level! And as she was not ... ...ed to be Anna’s suc- cessor; but why the latter should be flattered by the former’s youth was one of the mysteries for me then. Her aunt was 345 Geor... ...u are mounted on a skittish racehorse, with, if you like, a New Forest fly operating within an inch of his belly-girths. Our situation is so far tickl... ...he is peeping at somebody else’s. No danger of the dad being mixed up with Companies? Let’s hope not. Julia pledged her word to Janet that I would loo... ...t think you’ll gain anything by standing there as if you were jumping your trunk from a shark. Come, sir, you’re in a gentleman’s rooms; don’t pitch y... ... I am her chief agent, that is all.’ Her chief agent, as director of three Companies and chairman of one, was perhaps competent to advise her, he rema...

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...t along the paths of greatest usefulness.” Neither sort tempted Carol. The former seemed insincere (a favorite word of hers at this era). The earnest ... ...y morning now.” “Huh! You must be frightfully old—prob’ly too old to be my granddaughter, I guess!” Thus in the Vale of Arcady nymph and satyr beguile... ...show-window delicately rich in er- ror: vases starting out to imitate tree-trunks but running off into blobs of gilt—an aluminum ash-tray labeled “Gre... ...ack, as though she had bought it second-hand and was afraid of meeting the former owner. They were shy. It was “Professor” George Edwin Mott, superint... ...rty cents!” “Yaaaaaah!” snarled Mr. Stowbody. “Course. She’s just like her grandad was. Never save a cent. Two dollars and twenty—thirty, was it?—two ... ...from a medical predecessor, and changed it only by adding a white enameled operating-table, a sterilizer, a Roentgen- ray apparatus, and a small porta... ...room beyond, looking on Main Street, was business-office, consulting-room, operating-room, and, in an alcove, bacteriological and chemical laboratory.... ...ater in Gopher Prairie. It was known as the “op’ra house.” Once, strolling companies had used it for performances of “The Two Orphans,” and “Nellie th... ...uqua, in New York, there are, all over these States, commercial Chautauqua companies which send out to every smallest town troupes of lecturers and “e...

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...t in her little bed, and now assumed grave and protective airs towards her former playmate. 2 The boy, 3 as we have said, was two or three years Elsi... ...dows; out of dust, clay, mud, I think, and to return to it again. Out of a former state of being, whence we have brought a good many shadowy revelatio... ...ior. His son, if he left one, might be a little less of the ploughman; his grandson, provided the female element were well chosen, might approach to r... ...rative, would not suffice for. There was a French man in the town—a M. Le Grand, secretly calling himself a Count—who taught the little people, and, ... ...ruth; then, courage; then, justice; then, mercy; out of which prin ciples operating upon one another would come all brave, noble, high, unselfish act... ... shelter and sup port which it afforded them. At intervals, trees of vast trunk and mighty spread of foliage, whether elms or oaks, grew in the line ... ... breth ren, at their own will and pleasure, either formed themselves into companies or messes, of any convenient size, or enjoyed a solitary meal by ... ...ed to have been eaten away by time, so that a man could now creep into the trunk, through a wide opening, and, looking up ward, see another opening t... ...ever known; and two or three times a day, when he heard the screech of the railway train, rushing on towards distant London, it impressed him still mo...

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...ordinary practice for me; and what do I find him doing the next thing, but operating upon one of the worst throats he could find! I told him he was as... ...tter have stuck to old Axworthy’s place in Minster Street—daughter at that grand school, where she cost more than the whole half-dozen of you put toge... ...having such an accomplished daughter. When she came out in time of need so grandly, and showed all a woman’s instinct—’ ‘Woman’s nonsense! Instinct is... ...eat things,’ said Dr. May, ‘and it is a very easy journey—only four hours’ railway, and a ten miles’ drive.’ Averil’s face was full of consternation; ... ...neborough fungus. There are places in Wales nearer by the map, but without railway privi- lege; and as to a great gay place, they would all be sick of... ...to- wards the elder. 135 Yo n g e Averil hurried about, devoid of all her former interest in so doing things for herself as to save interference; and... ... angered him. ‘I can’t help it,’ he said, as if he would have recalled his former hardness; but then softening, ‘No, Miss May, why should it be? A man... ...d ‘a mash with a real handsome bridge over it,’ i. e. a succession of tree trunks laid side by side for about a quarter of a mile. Here 313 Yo n g e ... ...t half-past five in the morning, thence to be marched off in their various companies to work. He stood on the terrace from which the officials marshal...

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...y who broke the stillness at last. He said, with exultation: “Ah, it’ll be grand, Aleck! Out of the first thousand we’ll have a horse and a buggy for ... ... was properly tame now and sub dued. Aleck forgave him with her eyes. The grand interest, the supreme interest, came instantly to the front again; no... ... whole fortune in a purchase of all the railway systems and coal and steel companies in the country on a margin, and she was now trembling, every Sab ... ...to this enchanting spot. Little did he think of witnessing a shadow of his former happiness, though no doubt he wished it might be so. He continued sa... ... end, its mighty destination, and the causes which operated, and are still operating, to produce a more elevated station, and the objects which energi... ...to this enchanting spot. Little did he think of witnessing a shadow of his former happiness, though no doubt he wished it might be so. He continued sa... ... In one place, where a busy little city with banks and newspapers and fire companies and a mayor and aldermen had been, was nothing but a wide expanse... ...irt marked “O. M. R.” And yet during the voyage he worried more about his “trunk,” and gave himself more airs about it, than all the rest of the passe... ...hip was “down by the head,” and would not steer, he would go and move his “trunk” further aft, and then watch the effect. If the ship was “by the ster...

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...tacked the tree with his axe. The steel rang merrily as it bit into the frozen trunk, each stroke being accom panied by a forced, audible respiration... ...heir socks and smoked their evening pipes with much the same gusto as on their former visit, though one or two bold spirits speculated on desertion an... ...d, it was said, in the matter of bringing men with much money together to form companies. I saw the house An Odyssey of the North 81 they had lived i... ...s daughter’s daughter, but she was too busy to waste a thought upon her broken grandfather, sitting alone there in the snow, forlorn and helpless. Cam... ...ed his grip on life by what remained. If Sit cum to ha had only remembered her grandfather, and gathered a larger armful, his hours would have been lo... ...e madrone, permitting itself to be caught in the act of changing its pea green trunk to madder red, breathed its fragrance into the air from great clu... ...Englishmen and Colonials, lean Yankee traders and rotund officials of the great companies, cowboys from the Western ranges, sailors from the sea, hunte... ...raced herself. Hers was the superior weight, and the boy and bedding gave, the former instinctively following the latter in order to shelter against t... ... the conspirators to the typewriter which little Mrs. Sethby was industriously operating. His eyes rested on hers but an instant — she had chanced to ...