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... typical figure motivated especially by the sort of " human " considerations that helps to distinguish him from " the ... typical boss ; and that in these paragraphs he restricts his concern to the typical reformer , the typical boss ...
... typical figure motivated especially by the sort of " human " considerations that helps to distinguish him from " the ... typical boss ; and that in these paragraphs he restricts his concern to the typical reformer , the typical boss ...
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... typical infant prodigy grown up , pedantic and conceited , meddlesome and tactless , unsympa- thetic to the aspirations of youth and intolerant of their failings . -S . E. Morison , Harvard College in The Seventeenth Century One of the ...
... typical infant prodigy grown up , pedantic and conceited , meddlesome and tactless , unsympa- thetic to the aspirations of youth and intolerant of their failings . -S . E. Morison , Harvard College in The Seventeenth Century One of the ...
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... typical infant prodigy grown up . " What evidence can we find that this prodigy was a " typical " prodigy before he grew up ? 2 Several commentators on Mather's life have made him an Infant Prodigy . Building on one brief passage in his ...
... typical infant prodigy grown up . " What evidence can we find that this prodigy was a " typical " prodigy before he grew up ? 2 Several commentators on Mather's life have made him an Infant Prodigy . Building on one brief passage in his ...
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