The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 139Atlantic Monthly Company, 1927 - American essays |
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Page 16
... Perhaps in some not too remote conflict city dwellers , from grandmothers to school- children , will all be provided with gas masks and go about armed with hand grenades , lest they might encounter some division of the enemy newly ...
... Perhaps in some not too remote conflict city dwellers , from grandmothers to school- children , will all be provided with gas masks and go about armed with hand grenades , lest they might encounter some division of the enemy newly ...
Page 48
... perhaps , embrace the way of the Virgin , but we find Astarte very stale . As for comfort , we twentieth - century people are soothingly immersed in it . Ours is a steam - heated , well - lighted , cunningly upholstered , warm - bathed ...
... perhaps , embrace the way of the Virgin , but we find Astarte very stale . As for comfort , we twentieth - century people are soothingly immersed in it . Ours is a steam - heated , well - lighted , cunningly upholstered , warm - bathed ...
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... perhaps stands alone . Games , though no psychologist will claim that he can completely explain them , have at least a good historic standing . We are never really puzzled as to why people play them even when we feel no inclination to ...
... perhaps stands alone . Games , though no psychologist will claim that he can completely explain them , have at least a good historic standing . We are never really puzzled as to why people play them even when we feel no inclination to ...
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... perhaps more varied and their nicety not less than those of any other sport , the spell cast is the stronger . To go lightly up a rock wall when the only hold is the friction of the forearm pressing against the sides of a vertical crack ...
... perhaps more varied and their nicety not less than those of any other sport , the spell cast is the stronger . To go lightly up a rock wall when the only hold is the friction of the forearm pressing against the sides of a vertical crack ...
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... Perhaps even the man who deeply feels the beauty of a great mountain from the valley is doing something similar . He is hold- ing in control a set of feelings which if they broke loose would distress him . Let his equanimity be ...
... Perhaps even the man who deeply feels the beauty of a great mountain from the valley is doing something similar . He is hold- ing in control a set of feelings which if they broke loose would distress him . Let his equanimity be ...
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