City Club Bulletin, Volume 91914 - New York (N.Y.) |
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... ship , my friends , consists , not in butting your head against the rock , but in providing channels through which inevitable streams must flow , and this war has got to operate somehow in magnanimous and in a cooperative way . No ...
... ship , my friends , consists , not in butting your head against the rock , but in providing channels through which inevitable streams must flow , and this war has got to operate somehow in magnanimous and in a cooperative way . No ...
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memories of my childhood go back to the time when our merchant ships ran to every sea , to every shore . I have always regretted their dis- appearances . It has been my pleasant duty to write , as some of you remember , two or three of ...
memories of my childhood go back to the time when our merchant ships ran to every sea , to every shore . I have always regretted their dis- appearances . It has been my pleasant duty to write , as some of you remember , two or three of ...
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... ship to suit them ; in all ways we must learn to please . We must understand their system of credits , we must not be afraid to trust them ; but most of all , we must know them , we must feel the close bonds of a common ideal . " We all ...
... ship to suit them ; in all ways we must learn to please . We must understand their system of credits , we must not be afraid to trust them ; but most of all , we must know them , we must feel the close bonds of a common ideal . " We all ...
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... ships . It had been guaranteed a speed of sixteen knots an hour , but had never made more than twelve ; and one day ... ship made sixteen knots an hour for the first time . " While in Italy I had an opportunity on several occasions to ...
... ships . It had been guaranteed a speed of sixteen knots an hour , but had never made more than twelve ; and one day ... ship made sixteen knots an hour for the first time . " While in Italy I had an opportunity on several occasions to ...
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... ships ; the division of personnel , which has charge of the men and their appointments ; the material division which has the great bureaus of construction , engineering , ordnance , and supplies ; and then there is the division of ...
... ships ; the division of personnel , which has charge of the men and their appointments ; the material division which has the great bureaus of construction , engineering , ordnance , and supplies ; and then there is the division of ...
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Page 31 - Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly & mutualy in ye presence of God, and one of another, covenant & combine our selves togeather into a civill body politick, for our better ordering & preservation & furtherance of ye ends aforesaid ; and by vertue hearof to enacte, constitute, and frame such just & equall lawes, ordinances, acts, constitutions, & offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete & convenient for ye generall good of ye Colonie, unto which we promise all due submission...
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Page 31 - ... equall lawes, ordinances, acts, constitutions, & offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete & convenient for ye generall good of ye Colonie, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witnes wherof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cap-Codd ye 11.
Page 25 - ... and have complied with the provisions of the statutes of this commonwealth in such case made and provided, as appears from the certificate of the president, treasurer and directors of said corporation, duly approved by the commissioner of corporations and recorded in this office: now, therefore...
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Page 31 - Civil body politick; for our better ordering, & preservation & furtherance of ye ends aforesaid; and by vertue hereof to enacte, constitute, and frame such just & equall Lawes, ordinances, Acts, constitutions...