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...his society, being things is better than doing things and reputation and outward appearances come at the exclusion of everything else. In this Gilded Age, when America’s expansion and increased industrialism produce a group of newly wealthy robber barons and financiers, the patient, time-honored values of the old ruling class, and century, are giving way to the expediencie...

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...Gwendoline Wynn, our heroine, is an orphan-heiress who lives on the river Wye. She will live with aunt until she comes of age and her money. Vivian Ryecroft, our hero and a captain in the Hussars, is on a leave of absence in Herefordshire, salmon fishing on the Wye. Gwen and Vivian have a chance, and brief, encounter on the Wye, and Vivian is en...

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...Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American to publish a book of poetry in 1773. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at age seven, and bought by a wealthy Massachusetts family who taught her to read and write. Her extraordinary literary gifts led to the publication of her Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, and to her eventual eman...

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...e crafts have been taught successfully at senior citizen homes. Though it was written to be used with seniors, the crafts are great for people of any age....

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...n a sip of coffee. A horrible thought enters my mind. Now in this day and age one can’t tell by mere appearances, I just hope he’s not gay, what a t... ...ven; not much, mum had us close together. Geezers, now I’m lying about my age! Anyway, he also has me believing my chest is so small, even implants ... ... thinks if I don’t get my bum into gear, the only company I’ll have in old age, will be a set of false teeth and a battery driven device. Steven has ... ...et Sue assured me it’s a nice place and I’ll fit in considering the mixed age groups. Whilst walking down the hall towards a lounge area, I instruct... ...n all the time yet somehow it doesn’t seem right for a woman. Not that my age has anything to do with it, but the competition look so young, I think... ... wanting to spoil Ali’s fun and all. I do have to confess; when I was her age, I had a reputation of vandalising filthy rich establishments. Give me... ... Ladies and a glance in the mirror. Bugger; my life’s over! You feel your age, look your age and wish to god plastic surgery was on twenty-four hour ... ...anded to him slip through his fingers. Millie, being mighty quick for her age, grabbed it just before it hit the floor. Michael didn’t want a drink ...

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... 79 3. Benefiting from the New Space Age 81 4. Innovations in New Technology ... ...through, our perception of the place. 6. Peer Perceptions From a very early age, our peers strongly influence our basic perceptions. This can chan... ...more unhealthier factory farming produce. However, like everything in this age of globalization, others were co-dependent on us for purchasing th... ...n we should get through this current slump, and enter the coming new economic age, financially intact. 76 Into the Fu... ... 80 Benefiting from the New Space Age Whilst most of us where preoccupied with the stock market turmoi... ...had launched its first Satellite. This signifies the dawn of a very new Space Age. We have always been used to Space being the frontier of more de... ...dence on the USA, to use the commercial section of NASA. As this new Space Age develops, China and India could become competitors in the satellit... ...ng satellites on the cheap, bad news for NASA. New nations could join this age, Japan is technologically geared for equipping New nations who joi... ... age, Japan is technologically geared for equipping New nations who join this age, with high technological products needed to compete. Whilst Chines...

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...go Watts had been Wallace Langey’s mistress for at least twenty-seven years — Olin’s age. After the baby boy was born, and with Aunt Eleanor’s bless... ...end.” “Let me ask you about Sammie Lee.” “Sure.” Bobby and Sammie were the same age. They’d grown up together, attended various academies toget... ...en he’d talked to Honey Dade he found him to be a kindly black man of undeterminable age, neither young nor particularly macho. Whitaker went on, “I... ...s they’ve not gussied it up. Old floorboards. Lath and plaster walls stained with age.” His dark eyes, which studied her face, intensified. “When... ...ed. Having been born of a mother incapable of mothering, she’d found from an early age that this place gave her all the comfort she needed — not to... ...right, Mama. “I just learned that Donald Martell was adopted. He’s about the same age as Hannah’s first child would be, so would you be surprised i... ... older than Hannah, but she looked younger in the way doll-like women never seem to age, until one day their looks completely collapse. “Of course n... ...“I’d like to let her know she’s got a friend in me. I know she has friends her own age, but maybe she could use a shoulder a little broader than the... ...ed to the back of the file. As she had expected, there was an envelope, yellow with age. Was it her imagination or was it tear-stained? Also ther...

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...b that has grown from the hollow trunk of some gnarled willow, withered by age, blasted 12 The Exiles by lightning, standing decrepit; one of those m... ...he immoderate love of the marvelous, which haunts the mind of man in every age. This effort of man to clutch the infinite, which for ever slips throug... ...died life from blood-stained pages? What can you have to weep for, at your age?” “Alas!” said Godefroid, “I regret a land more beautiful than any land... ...appy Shade with his palm-branch. He, who was perhaps trying to measure the age of sorrow that divided him from that ever-vanishing ‘T o-morrow,’ start...

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...m as much as the others. He detected a degrading quality in the touches of age which every day adds to a human countenance. They moved and disturbed h... ...paper in the Antipodes could not ignore the fashionable philosopher of the age. Not that anybody read Moorsom at the Antipodes, but everybody had hear... ...tony eyes. “And you proceed from one set to the other in this demo- cratic age,” the Editor went on with unperturbed complacency. “That is if you are ... ...e! And then the lady was quite capable of going off by herself. She was of age, she 18 had money of her own, plenty of pluck too. Moorsom must have c... ... deaf, his big hand to his ear with the innocent eagerness of his advanced age remembering the fires of life. It was with a sort of apprehension that ... ...in talking to him at times. Was it because he was the only person near her age? Was this, then, the secret of his admission to the circle? He admired ... ...s. But I have been looking too long at life not to distrust its surprises. Age! Age! Here I stand before you a man full of doubts and hesitation— spe ... ... professor’s sister on his left, dressed in an expensive gown becoming her age. That maiden lady in her wonderful preservation reminded Renouard someh... ...people, a silent frightened mortal, into some pro- found retreat as in the age of Cavern men. Suddenly every- body got up, and he hastened to rise too...

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...was the Sub Warden’s wife, and that Uggug (a hideous fat boy, about the same age as Sylvie, with the expression of a prize pig) was their son. Sylvie ... ...raceful festoon, “that this represents what is perhaps the necessity of this Age—the Active T ourist’s Portable Bath. Y ou may describe it briefly, i... ...ached to the office, until my return, or, failing that, until Bruno comes of age: and that he shall then hand over, to myself or to Bruno as the case ... ...e merest jest, believe me!” I said earnestly. “Why, man, I’m three times her age! But if she’s your choice, then I’m sure she’s all that is good and—”... ...give are small, At least I can afford to lend. How few, in this cold age of greed, Do good, except on selfish grounds! But I can feel ... ...y inconvenient! ‘No Nobleness of soul have I, Like some that in this Age are found!’ (Paul blushed in sheer humility, And cast his eye... ...railway signals. Sylvie gently explained matters. “I’m afraid we ca’n’t man age it,” she said in a low voice. “I’m very sorry: but our ears haven’t g... ...‘The Man with the Iron Mask’ was, no doubt, a rarity and a marvel in his own age: in modern Lon don no one would turn his head to give him a second l... ...ying awake at night—on a railway journey —when taking a solitary walk in old age, when eye sight is failing of wholly lost—and, best of all, when illn...

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...erless, was not Lucy likewise an only child? Perkins was twenty-three: his age and Lucy’s united, amounted to forty-six; and it was to be remarked, as... ...gh, and occupant of one, Sir George Grimsby Gorgon, Baronet, was a person- age of no small importance. He was, it scarcely need to be said, a Tory; an... ...stile to them; so soon as, gorged with meat, they began to find that cour- age which Britons invariably derive from their victuals. The show of the Go... ... her niece, Miss Gorgon; but seeing that these two young people were of an age when ideas of love and marriage will spring up, do what you will; see- ... ... a little old 32 The Bedord-Row Conspiracy gentleman, some sixty years of age, maternal uncle to John Perkins; a bachelor, who had been about forty- ... ...e, you who are all in all with Lord Bagwig, are we never to have our peer- age? His Majesty, I know, is not averse; the services of dear Sir George to... ...eremptory invitation, and hinted at the same time that she had attained an age and a position which enabled her to be the mistress of her own actions....

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...reene was standing apart, doing nothing. As she was only eighteen years of age, it was of course her business to do nothing; and a very pretty little ... ...nd looked up into my face. She was a pretty woman, perhaps thirty years of age, with long light yel- low hair, which she allowed to escape from her bo... ...the last six weeks. He was a small spare man, probably over fifty years of age, who gave me to understand that he had lived in London all his life, an...

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...ower Strategic Thought—1901–2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65 The Origins: WW I, 1916–18 . . . . . . . . . . .66 The First Pursuit Age: 1919–26 . . . . . . . . . 68 The Industrial Web and Rise of the Bomber: 1927–41 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 WW II and Balanced Airpower: 1941–45 . . . 73 The Heyday of the Nukes and Buffs: 194...

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...83 and books: - Bible - Qur’ân - others 9) Symbolism development - circles - triangles - colors - cross - pyramid 10) Fruit... 11) Another Age 12) So what!!! or So what??? 13) Quotes/Media Events - “Restoring Honor” Rally - “One Nation Working Together” Rally - Comedy Rally - 9-11 14) “IMAGINE – THE FŌGIE WAY” 15) Developing another Word Picture: a Musli...

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...No records can be found relating to Henry Coles’ childhood until he left school at the age of 13, to be articled to S.Worssam and Co. (later called A. Ransome and Co.), who were manufacturers of sawmill equipment with premises on the King’s Road, Chelsea. He was with them for ten years, the first five in the dr...