The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 142Atlantic Monthly Company, 1928 - American essays |
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Page 18
... believe in clues or in searching the room with a microscope . Instead he looks upon crime as a critic , seeing in each criminal act a complete piece of creative work , bound to bear the peculiar imprint of the criminal , just as surely ...
... believe in clues or in searching the room with a microscope . Instead he looks upon crime as a critic , seeing in each criminal act a complete piece of creative work , bound to bear the peculiar imprint of the criminal , just as surely ...
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... believe I should find more than the three basic problems . The courtship I think would prove to be more complex , and actual uses more apparent and vital for the huge claw , twice as long and nearly half as heavy as all the rest of its ...
... believe I should find more than the three basic problems . The courtship I think would prove to be more complex , and actual uses more apparent and vital for the huge claw , twice as long and nearly half as heavy as all the rest of its ...
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... believe in the past ? In perfect strictness , it is always to - day , always ' now . ' The geologist , standing before a cliff built up of successive layers of limestone , sees the whole in to - day , in the present moment . But the ...
... believe in the past ? In perfect strictness , it is always to - day , always ' now . ' The geologist , standing before a cliff built up of successive layers of limestone , sees the whole in to - day , in the present moment . But the ...
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... believe that any sophomore could have done better than Earl Grey and that , irre- spective of study and experience , Youth somehow had higher morals and better judgment than the men who steered our Western civilization into disaster ...
... believe that any sophomore could have done better than Earl Grey and that , irre- spective of study and experience , Youth somehow had higher morals and better judgment than the men who steered our Western civilization into disaster ...
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... believe we were not revenue officers . But we were careful , at night , to set our little tent near a human habita- tion . We camped that night by the big spring near the sheriff's pleasure place . The caretaker's wife brought us some ...
... believe we were not revenue officers . But we were careful , at night , to set our little tent near a human habita- tion . We camped that night by the big spring near the sheriff's pleasure place . The caretaker's wife brought us some ...
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