The World To-day: A Monthly Record of Human Progress, Volume 12World Review Company, 1907 |
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... , and no new ground can be devoted to its cultivation . A register is to be kept of all persons using opium and of the amount consumed . Those over sixty years of age are permitted to continue using it ,. 16 EVENTS OF THE MONTH.
... , and no new ground can be devoted to its cultivation . A register is to be kept of all persons using opium and of the amount consumed . Those over sixty years of age are permitted to continue using it ,. 16 EVENTS OF THE MONTH.
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... persons accused of political crimes must be tried by the ordinary civil tribunals and by the regular methods . House of Lords The debate on the Education Bill in the House of Lords has reached a point where The English all hopes of a ...
... persons accused of political crimes must be tried by the ordinary civil tribunals and by the regular methods . House of Lords The debate on the Education Bill in the House of Lords has reached a point where The English all hopes of a ...
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... person with altruistic weaknesses , the sight is specially distressing . As I looked upon wagonloads of these apples of Hes- perides , imperfect only to an expert eye , consigned to the muck - heap , I thought of the rare joy and ...
... person with altruistic weaknesses , the sight is specially distressing . As I looked upon wagonloads of these apples of Hes- perides , imperfect only to an expert eye , consigned to the muck - heap , I thought of the rare joy and ...
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... person with whom he talks . His hearty grip is a re- minder of the campaign days of 1896 , but his hypnotic , compelling stare harks back further than that . This is the way he tells the story : " When I first began teaching school they ...
... person with whom he talks . His hearty grip is a re- minder of the campaign days of 1896 , but his hypnotic , compelling stare harks back further than that . This is the way he tells the story : " When I first began teaching school they ...
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... persons provided for by the act . 99 The following were declared to be enti- tled to the benefits of the asylum : " All officers and soldiers who served in the late war for the purpose of suppressing the rebellion , and not provided for ...
... persons provided for by the act . 99 The following were declared to be enti- tled to the benefits of the asylum : " All officers and soldiers who served in the late war for the purpose of suppressing the rebellion , and not provided for ...
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Page 194 - Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort ; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
Page 455 - Spain cedes to the United States the island of Porto Rico and other islands now under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies and the island of Guam in the Marianas or Ladrones.
Page 322 - I knew that you could endure hunger and thirst and all the hardships of war. I knew that you loved the land of your nativity, and that, like ourselves, you had to defend all that is most dear to man. But you surpass my hopes. I have found in you, united to these qualities, that noble enthusiasm which impels to great deeds.
Page 434 - States; or, being a subject or citizen of a foreign state, and domiciled therein, is in custody for an act done or omitted under any alleged right, title, authority, privilege, protection, or exemption claimed under the commission, or order, or sanction of any foreign state, or under color thereof, the validity and effect whereof depend upon the law of nations; or unless it is necessary to bring the prisoner into court to testify.
Page 356 - That whenever the President shall be satisfied that passports issued by any foreign government to Its citizens to go to any country other than the United States or to any Insular possession of the United States or to the Canal Zone are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein, the President may refuse to permit such citizens of the country issuing such passports to enter the continental...
Page 427 - New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Page 47 - States army, to be known by the name and style of the National' Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers,' with a board of managers consisting of the President of the United States...
Page 13 - Federal constitution providing for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people, and we favor direct legislation wherever practicable.
Page 223 - The decision was carried by 1,894 votes against 1,037. On the day following this resolution, Mr. Runciman announced in the House of Commons that the Government had decided to apply by proclamation the provisions of the Munitions of War Act for the settlement of the difference.
Page 121 - Kongo have been subjected to inhuman treatment of a character that should claim the attention and excite the compassion of the people of the United States: Therefore, be it Resolved , That the...