Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women: With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers ... |
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... began a vigorous campaign to suppress obscene literature , and has faith- fully served the nation along this line for twenty - two years . JOHN C. DUEBER , President of the Hampden Watch Company , Canton , Ohio , and of the Dueber Watch ...
... began a vigorous campaign to suppress obscene literature , and has faith- fully served the nation along this line for twenty - two years . JOHN C. DUEBER , President of the Hampden Watch Company , Canton , Ohio , and of the Dueber Watch ...
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... Began teaching ; became principal of her alma mater . An ardent worker on reform lines . A woman of high literary ability , and personal force in her home and in public life . GEO . F. MOSHER , LL.D. , President Hillsdale College ...
... Began teaching ; became principal of her alma mater . An ardent worker on reform lines . A woman of high literary ability , and personal force in her home and in public life . GEO . F. MOSHER , LL.D. , President Hillsdale College ...
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... began to rise ! He was required to be in the factory at work by six o'clock in the morning , and must work until eight o'clock at night , with but a brief interlude for breakfast and dinner . But undaunted he toiled on , hurrying at the ...
... began to rise ! He was required to be in the factory at work by six o'clock in the morning , and must work until eight o'clock at night , with but a brief interlude for breakfast and dinner . But undaunted he toiled on , hurrying at the ...
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... began life in poverty , and , reckoned by a commercial standard , they have been eminently success- ful men . Very many of them are noble specimens of Christian manhood , and are bravely carrying on the world's philan- thropies , and in ...
... began life in poverty , and , reckoned by a commercial standard , they have been eminently success- ful men . Very many of them are noble specimens of Christian manhood , and are bravely carrying on the world's philan- thropies , and in ...
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... began to run out village lots and township lines , and to make and sell maps of the surrounding territory . At seventeen he started to build , as a partner , a tannery , and a new town , and two years later he branched out as a local ...
... began to run out village lots and township lines , and to make and sell maps of the surrounding territory . At seventeen he started to build , as a partner , a tannery , and a new town , and two years later he branched out as a local ...
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