The North American Review, Volumen226University of Northern Iowa, 1928 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... average man to be certain proof of an enormous increase in crimes of violence throughout the nation . In some instances the presentation of crime news seems to have been guided by a pandering to the sen- sational rather than by devotion ...
... average man to be certain proof of an enormous increase in crimes of violence throughout the nation . In some instances the presentation of crime news seems to have been guided by a pandering to the sen- sational rather than by devotion ...
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... average number of divorces was twenty - three a day ! ) , let us see how this tendency can be combatted , and also if it seems best to combat it . As far as perpetual motion goes , I think the motor has been a source of great pleasure ...
... average number of divorces was twenty - three a day ! ) , let us see how this tendency can be combatted , and also if it seems best to combat it . As far as perpetual motion goes , I think the motor has been a source of great pleasure ...
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... average traveller ? Are they stable enough to span oceans and continents ? Can they command a sufficient " paying load " to justify their existence economically ? These are questions that will have to be answered satisfactorily before ...
... average traveller ? Are they stable enough to span oceans and continents ? Can they command a sufficient " paying load " to justify their existence economically ? These are questions that will have to be answered satisfactorily before ...
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... average speed of forty miles an hour , there is derived a unit of twenty miles an hour a pound . Compare this with Lindbergh's airplane which flew over midocean at an average speed of three one - hundredths of a mile a pound ...
... average speed of forty miles an hour , there is derived a unit of twenty miles an hour a pound . Compare this with Lindbergh's airplane which flew over midocean at an average speed of three one - hundredths of a mile a pound ...
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... average man is to be persuaded to book passage by air , he must be transported with an absolute minimum of unfavorable reaction until he has acquired at least a certain amount of " air - mindedness " . Right here is a deep psychological ...
... average man is to be persuaded to book passage by air , he must be transported with an absolute minimum of unfavorable reaction until he has acquired at least a certain amount of " air - mindedness " . Right here is a deep psychological ...
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Página 142 - The Members of the League undertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all Members of the League. In case of any such aggression or in case of any threat or danger of such aggression the Council shall advise upon the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled.
Página 504 - The High Contracting Parties solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another.
Página 510 - I direct that in the election of a student to a scholarship regard shall be had to (i) his literary and scholastic attainments; (2) his fondness for and success in manly outdoor sports such as cricket, football and the like; (3) his qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship; and (4) his exhibition during school days of moral force of character and of instincts to lead and to take an interest in his schoolmates...
Página 253 - Enquiry into the Use and Practice of Juries among the Greeks and Romans,' London, 17C.9, may be consulted as to the functions of the Roman judices in the Judicia Publica.
Página 729 - I think the best remedy is exactly that provided by all our constitutions, to leave to the citizens the free election and separation of the aristoi from the pseudo-aristoi, of the wheat from the chaff. In general they will elect the really good and wise. In some instances, wealth may corrupt, and birth blind them ; but not in sufficient degree to endanger the society.
Página 174 - That the said colonies and plantations in America have been, are, and of right ought to be, subordinate unto, and dependent upon the imperial crown and parliament of Great Britain...
Página 43 - But let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Página 174 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Página 313 - To liberty and enfranchisement is as far as law can carry the negro. The rest must be left to conscience and common sense. It must be left to those among whom his lot is cast, with whom he is indissolubly connected, and whose prosperity depends upon their possessing his intelligent sympathy and confidence. Faith has been kept with him, in spite of calumnious assertions to the contrary by those who assume to speak for us or by frank opponents.
Página 518 - Acts and ideas that lead to progress are born out of the womb of the individual mind, not out of the mind of the crowd. The crowd only feels: it has no mind of its own which can plan. The crowd is credulous, it destroys, it consumes, it hates, and it dreams — but it never builds.