St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks, Volume 55Scribner & Company, 1928 - Children's periodicals |
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... Badge ) SIX months ago , as we came down the Yangtze River on the ship provided for refugees from all parts of China , we passed the city of Nanking . It was peaceful then - not a sign of the Communist flag did we see , only the old ...
... Badge ) SIX months ago , as we came down the Yangtze River on the ship provided for refugees from all parts of China , we passed the city of Nanking . It was peaceful then - not a sign of the Communist flag did we see , only the old ...
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... BADGE . SILVER BADGE WON AUGUST , 1927 ) like a spider's web , with its many struts and wires running back and forth . In the center of the lower plane is a motor , which runs two large propellers . In the front and back , framework sup ...
... BADGE . SILVER BADGE WON AUGUST , 1927 ) like a spider's web , with its many struts and wires running back and forth . In the center of the lower plane is a motor , which runs two large propellers . In the front and back , framework sup ...
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... BADGE WON SEPTEMBER , 1926 ) ( GOLD BADGE . THE MAGIC OF THE FROST BY BETTY LINCOLN LITCH ( AGE 15 ) ( Silver Badge ) LAST evening I lay sleeping , When out of the mist there came A little stranger , creeping , And " Jack Frost " was ...
... BADGE WON SEPTEMBER , 1926 ) ( GOLD BADGE . THE MAGIC OF THE FROST BY BETTY LINCOLN LITCH ( AGE 15 ) ( Silver Badge ) LAST evening I lay sleeping , When out of the mist there came A little stranger , creeping , And " Jack Frost " was ...
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... BADGE . SILVER BADGE WON FEBRUARY , 1926 ) BY ANNIE T. HOWARD , AGE 17. ( SILVER BADGE ) BY MARY C. WESTFALL , AGE 17. ( GOLD BADGE SILVER BADGE WON OCTOBER , 1927 ) That night when Bicky went to the public library , he was soon so ...
... BADGE . SILVER BADGE WON FEBRUARY , 1926 ) BY ANNIE T. HOWARD , AGE 17. ( SILVER BADGE ) BY MARY C. WESTFALL , AGE 17. ( GOLD BADGE SILVER BADGE WON OCTOBER , 1927 ) That night when Bicky went to the public library , he was soon so ...
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... Badge . Silver Badge won January , My trip was a lovely one through the historical part. LIVING HEROES BY CATHERINE MCLARNEY ( AGE 13 ) MANY of the living heroes , unlike Lindbergh , Byrd , and other much famed ones , are not known ...
... Badge . Silver Badge won January , My trip was a lovely one through the historical part. LIVING HEROES BY CATHERINE MCLARNEY ( AGE 13 ) MANY of the living heroes , unlike Lindbergh , Byrd , and other much famed ones , are not known ...
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Page 207 - and that the following Is, to the beat of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and If a dally paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown In the above caption, required by the Act of August 24. 1912. embodied In section 443, Postal LAWS and Regulations, printed on the
Page 207 - 2. That the owners are: (Give name and addresses of Individual owners, or. If a corporation, give Its name and the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of the total amount of stock.) Owners,
Page 252 - If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on
Page 119 - For the beauty of the earth, For the beauty of the skies, For the love which from our birth Over and above us lies, Lord of all, to thee we raise This our hymn of grateful praise.
Page 433 - discovers a deposit of guano on any island, rock, or key, not within the lawful jurisdiction of any other government, and not occupied by the citizens of any other government, and takes peaceable possession thereof and occupies the same, such
Page 317 - The commissariat failed miserably, perhaps dishonestly, to relieve the desperate want. Two days before Christmas there was "not a single hoof of any kind to slaughter, and not more than twenty-five barrels of flour." Men died by the score from starvation.
Page 414 - For my part, I like a good hearty funeral as well as anything. You've as splendid victuals and drink as at other parties, and even better, and it don't wear your legs to stumps in talking over a poor feller's ways, as it do to stand up in
Page 463 - A shaded lamp and a waving blind, And the beat of a clock from a distant floor; On this scene enter—winged, horned, and spined— A longlegs, a moth, and a dumbledore; While 'mid my page there idly stands A sleepy fly that rubs its hands.
Page 318 - Smoke. What have you got for Breakfast, Lads? 'Fire Cake and Water, Sir.' The Lord send that our Commissary of Purchases may live on Fire Cake & Water till their glutted Gutts are turned to Pasteboard." He admonishes: "Ye who Eat Pumpkin Pie and Roast Turkies— and yet Curse fortune for using you ill—Curse her no more—least she reduce
Page 414 - She must know by this time whether she's to go up or down, poor woman." "What was her age?" "Not more than seven or eight and twenty, by candle-light. But Lord! by day 'a was forty if 'a were an hour." "Ay, night-time or day-time makes a difference of twenty years to rich feymels,