The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 128Atlantic Monthly Company, 1921 - American essays |
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Page 43
... five hundred years ? And did you see the machine- guns in the court ? And everyone arm- ed even the boys , with belts of cart- ridges ? Then you went up the narrow winding track between the mountains , and you said to yourself , " This ...
... five hundred years ? And did you see the machine- guns in the court ? And everyone arm- ed even the boys , with belts of cart- ridges ? Then you went up the narrow winding track between the mountains , and you said to yourself , " This ...
Page 56
... five miles . Belt records a leaf - cutter's trail half a mile long , which would mean that every ant that went out , cut his tiny bit of leaf , and returned , would traverse a distance of a hundred and sixteen miles . This was an ...
... five miles . Belt records a leaf - cutter's trail half a mile long , which would mean that every ant that went out , cut his tiny bit of leaf , and returned , would traverse a distance of a hundred and sixteen miles . This was an ...
Page 57
... five . I tested the speed of an Atta , and then I saw that its leaf seemed to have a peculiar - shaped bug upon it , and picked it up with its bearer . Finding the blemish to be only a bit of fungus , I replaced it . Half an hour later ...
... five . I tested the speed of an Atta , and then I saw that its leaf seemed to have a peculiar - shaped bug upon it , and picked it up with its bearer . Finding the blemish to be only a bit of fungus , I replaced it . Half an hour later ...
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... five years that the interior of the church has been exposed to the weather , shrubs four or five feet high have grown up in the nave ; and it was against this lovely background of green that we built a temporary altar . On one side of ...
... five years that the interior of the church has been exposed to the weather , shrubs four or five feet high have grown up in the nave ; and it was against this lovely background of green that we built a temporary altar . On one side of ...
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... five years of war , they are even now , it is asserted , en- gaged in realizing this ambitious pro- gramme , at which , indeed , they have been quietly working for a century or more . As evidence of this alarming thesis , it is pointed ...
... five years of war , they are even now , it is asserted , en- gaged in realizing this ambitious pro- gramme , at which , indeed , they have been quietly working for a century or more . As evidence of this alarming thesis , it is pointed ...
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