The EarthquakeCharles Scribner's Sons, 1918 - 307 páginas The awakening of the United States to it's involvement in World War I. |
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... Once a week a small steamer dropped a bag of mail at our landing , including a bundle of morning , evening , and Sunday New York papers about as big as a hogshead . At first we used to rush down to the jetty and tear off the wrappers ...
... Once a week a small steamer dropped a bag of mail at our landing , including a bundle of morning , evening , and Sunday New York papers about as big as a hogshead . At first we used to rush down to the jetty and tear off the wrappers ...
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... once . " Well , I've spent every cent of it ; so have you . Add twelve thousand to three thousand and seven hundred " -I did it- " and you get fifteen thousand seven hundred . That's what this blooming old war has done to me already ...
... once . " Well , I've spent every cent of it ; so have you . Add twelve thousand to three thousand and seven hundred " -I did it- " and you get fifteen thousand seven hundred . That's what this blooming old war has done to me already ...
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... once and for all . It's a matter of conscience . I shall not keep the car this winter . " ' Anyhow , " I urged feebly , " you might as well run it for a few days while you are getting settled - say , for a week . It seems foolish not to ...
... once and for all . It's a matter of conscience . I shall not keep the car this winter . " ' Anyhow , " I urged feebly , " you might as well run it for a few days while you are getting settled - say , for a week . It seems foolish not to ...
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... once before did I recall having descended to the lower regions presided over by that being so singularly misnamed the useful man . At any rate , I had always looked upon him as anything but useful- a fiction , a frill , a foolish ...
... once before did I recall having descended to the lower regions presided over by that being so singularly misnamed the useful man . At any rate , I had always looked upon him as anything but useful- a fiction , a frill , a foolish ...
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... proud title of " liberal providers . " Puddings , more than half the time , were sent back to the kitchen only partly consumed . Nothing in metropolitan centres ever reappeared upon the dining - room table , once it had 70 THE EARTHQUAKE N.
... proud title of " liberal providers . " Puddings , more than half the time , were sent back to the kitchen only partly consumed . Nothing in metropolitan centres ever reappeared upon the dining - room table , once it had 70 THE EARTHQUAKE N.
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