Essays for College EnglishJames Cloyd Bowman, Louis Ignatius Bredvold, LeRoy Bethuel Greenfield, Bruce Weirick D. C. Heath & Company, 1915 - 447 страница |
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... civilization , and check the seemingly irresistible drift to the city . " The suburban electric railroads , " said Mr. Taft , " the telephone , the rural postal delivery , inventions , and coöperative arrangements are reaching such a ...
... civilization , and check the seemingly irresistible drift to the city . " The suburban electric railroads , " said Mr. Taft , " the telephone , the rural postal delivery , inventions , and coöperative arrangements are reaching such a ...
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... civilization , have brought them to bear on country life with the result that the latter has been found backward in some respects as measured by those ideals . The few instances of rural arrested development or of deterioration are a ...
... civilization , have brought them to bear on country life with the result that the latter has been found backward in some respects as measured by those ideals . The few instances of rural arrested development or of deterioration are a ...
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... civilization and which must be considered basic and inevitable are largely accountable for the movement . The matter may be simply stated . One farmer produces sustenance for the support of many besides himself . Double his productive ...
... civilization and which must be considered basic and inevitable are largely accountable for the movement . The matter may be simply stated . One farmer produces sustenance for the support of many besides himself . Double his productive ...
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... civilization have created and conserved and should of right come into the enjoyment of them . Country popula- tions have a right in their own stead to enjoy all that life offers , even if they do not contemplate leaving the soil for the ...
... civilization have created and conserved and should of right come into the enjoyment of them . Country popula- tions have a right in their own stead to enjoy all that life offers , even if they do not contemplate leaving the soil for the ...
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... civilization and the cause of human freedom . As a basis of the coming feeling you must have a mutual comprehension . The fundamental truth in modern life , as I analyze it , is a profound ignorance . I am not one of those who challenge ...
... civilization and the cause of human freedom . As a basis of the coming feeling you must have a mutual comprehension . The fundamental truth in modern life , as I analyze it , is a profound ignorance . I am not one of those who challenge ...
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