Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 98Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Scribner & Company; The Century Company, 1919 - American literature |
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... less would be our store of memories now ! Our modern speed is a curse ; our modern sexual relations are a curse . Life for us has lost the unutterable beauty of unfoldment . Our present - day standards have robbed most women of the ...
... less would be our store of memories now ! Our modern speed is a curse ; our modern sexual relations are a curse . Life for us has lost the unutterable beauty of unfoldment . Our present - day standards have robbed most women of the ...
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... less , blinding whiteness , the merit of it quite escapes me . A club in the winter is all right on the inside . You need n't look out of the window , and the place is usually warm . Snow is merely our an- nual penance . It has the ...
... less , blinding whiteness , the merit of it quite escapes me . A club in the winter is all right on the inside . You need n't look out of the window , and the place is usually warm . Snow is merely our an- nual penance . It has the ...
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... less my home than " she stopped short . " Than England ? " he said . " There's one thing , anyway , " she said in her elusive way . " If I can't go back for a good while , neither can you . " He stared at her , a great hope con- tending ...
... less my home than " she stopped short . " Than England ? " he said . " There's one thing , anyway , " she said in her elusive way . " If I can't go back for a good while , neither can you . " He stared at her , a great hope con- tending ...
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... less advantageously because of your mis- sion , even though it ' s private . But " -Taylor got up to find a match . He paused to lay a hand on Napier's shoul- der " see Wilson soon . " It was already arranged , he was told . " Well ...
... less advantageously because of your mis- sion , even though it ' s private . But " -Taylor got up to find a match . He paused to lay a hand on Napier's shoul- der " see Wilson soon . " It was already arranged , he was told . " Well ...
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... less attribut- able to two or three other absorbed groups seated about the great room , less to that fact than to some sudden rush of feeling that clouded her voice . “ You are safe here . " He looked at her for a moment . De ...
... less attribut- able to two or three other absorbed groups seated about the great room , less to that fact than to some sudden rush of feeling that clouded her voice . “ You are safe here . " He looked at her for a moment . De ...
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Page 628 - The best method of giving practical effect to this principle is that the tutelage of such peoples should be entrusted to advanced nations who, by reason of their resources, their experience or their geographical position, can best undertake this responsibility and who are willing to accept it, and that this tutelage should be exercised by them as mandatories on behalf of the League.
Page 629 - ... of their resources, their experience or their geographical position can best undertake this responsibility, and who are willing to accept it, and that this tutelage should be exercised by them as Mandatories on behalf of the League. The character of the mandate must differ according to the stage of the development of the people, the geographical situation of the territory, its economic conditions and other similar circumstances.
Page 629 - The degree of .authority , control, or administration to be exercised by the Mandatory shall, if not previously agreed upon by the Members of the League, be explicitly defined in each case by the Council.
Page 268 - The settlement of every question, whether of territory, of sovereignty, of economic arrangement or of political relationship, upon the basis of the free acceptance of that settlement by the people immediately concerned, and not upon the basis of the material interest or advantage of any other nation or people which may desire a different settlement for the sake of its own exterior influence or mastery.
Page 236 - Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!
Page 407 - A dozen fields of thought are today congested with knowledge that the physical and social sciences have unearthed, and the whole tone and temper of American life can be lifted by putting this knowledge into general circulation. But where are the interpreters with the training and the willingness to think their way through this knowledge and translate it into the language of the street? I raise the recruiting trumpet for the interpreters.
Page 85 - It may be desirable to state here our considered opinion that an essential condition of securing a permanent improvement in the relations between employers and employed is that there should be adequate organization on the part of both employers and workpeople. The proposals outlined for joint cooperation throughout the several industries depend for their ultimate success upon there being such organization on both sides; and such organization is necessary also to provide means whereby the arrangements...
Page 398 - restore our politics to their full spiritual vigor again, and our national life, whether in trade, in industry, or in what concerns us only as families and individuals, to its purity, its self-respect, and its pristine strength and freedom.
Page 130 - I submit that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, and that you must permit this book to be judged upon precedent.
Page 468 - did you ever dream in Delancey Street that we should rub sleeves with the President?" "I always said that Benny had more head than the rest of you," replied the mother. As the laughter died away, Jake went on: "Honor you are getting plenty; but how much mezummen does this play bring you? Can I invest any of it in real estate for you?" "I'm getting ten per cent royalties of the gross receipts/ replied the youthful playwright. "How much is that?