The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 128Atlantic Monthly Company, 1921 - American essays |
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I took it down warily , expecting something un- common to occur ; but it was only a musty old volume in French , with torn leaves and soiled pages . I pretended to be interested . " There is not much else there worth looking at ...
I took it down warily , expecting something un- common to occur ; but it was only a musty old volume in French , with torn leaves and soiled pages . I pretended to be interested . " There is not much else there worth looking at ...
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That was it — one of the common crowd . I wanted , not the theories of theorists , or the doc- trines of doctrinaires , but to see what the greatest social experiment the world has ever seen did for the common crowd .
That was it — one of the common crowd . I wanted , not the theories of theorists , or the doc- trines of doctrinaires , but to see what the greatest social experiment the world has ever seen did for the common crowd .
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1 is that common social level . Éducation in a democracy must average - teach the high to come down , the humble to rise , and all of us to walk togeth- er . Not trying to do more than this for any , or daring to do less than this for ...
1 is that common social level . Éducation in a democracy must average - teach the high to come down , the humble to rise , and all of us to walk togeth- er . Not trying to do more than this for any , or daring to do less than this for ...
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I PAUL ZONBOR , Son of a Hungarian laborer , was born in a small village near the town of Temesvar , where German is the common tongue . In his childhood , Paul went to the village school , where , as he saw it in after years ...
I PAUL ZONBOR , Son of a Hungarian laborer , was born in a small village near the town of Temesvar , where German is the common tongue . In his childhood , Paul went to the village school , where , as he saw it in after years ...
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The names of labor leaders the world over are common to his memory , and he can dilate on the particular creed and preaching of each one . Where did he gain all this knowledge ? In America ? Yes , surely , since the laborer of the Temes ...
The names of labor leaders the world over are common to his memory , and he can dilate on the particular creed and preaching of each one . Where did he gain all this knowledge ? In America ? Yes , surely , since the laborer of the Temes ...
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