Harper's Magazine, Volume 145Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen Harper & Brothers, 1922 - American literature Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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... close exami- nation , that two thousand Parsees had died of the blue plague , that a powder boat had blown up at Bombay , that some one had thrown a couple of bombs at one of the provincial governors , and that four thousand agitators ...
... close exami- nation , that two thousand Parsees had died of the blue plague , that a powder boat had blown up at Bombay , that some one had thrown a couple of bombs at one of the provincial governors , and that four thousand agitators ...
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... close analogy between railroad and highway developments . The railroad , in pioneer days , like the highway , fol- lowed the line of least resistance- around or over hills instead of through them . Within the past twenty years , to ...
... close analogy between railroad and highway developments . The railroad , in pioneer days , like the highway , fol- lowed the line of least resistance- around or over hills instead of through them . Within the past twenty years , to ...
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... close to the city . The great " trails " which have been laid out across the country from north to south and east to west will have other economic values , but they are being de- veloped primarily to attract automobile tourists , and ...
... close to the city . The great " trails " which have been laid out across the country from north to south and east to west will have other economic values , but they are being de- veloped primarily to attract automobile tourists , and ...
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... of wine with a bottle of milk . Even Ada . . . He moved so abruptly as he followed close on the heels of Mr. Dainopoulos that the latter looked at was necessary . " We can fix our little business 42 HARPER'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
... of wine with a bottle of milk . Even Ada . . . He moved so abruptly as he followed close on the heels of Mr. Dainopoulos that the latter looked at was necessary . " We can fix our little business 42 HARPER'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
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... close he was . The ship's bows were towering over him and wavering to and fro . And as he turned to get farther out he felt himself raised up on a vast billow of smooth water that was rolling in over the Tanganyika . He was carried ...
... close he was . The ship's bows were towering over him and wavering to and fro . And as he turned to get farther out he felt himself raised up on a vast billow of smooth water that was rolling in over the Tanganyika . He was carried ...
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