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The Acts of Uniformity: Their Scope and Effect
T .A. Lacey The Acts of Uniformity are incidents in a great movement. They are far from being the most important of its incidents. Their importance h…
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Original
The Abbeys of Great Britain
H. Claiborne Dixon INTRODUCTION In the hope of making the following sketches of more general interest, it will be as well to review as concisely as …
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Book
Ball-Room Dancing Without a Master
A nonymous HOW TO ORGANIZE A BALL. As the number of guests at a dinner party is regulated by the size of the table, so should the number of invitatio…
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Recipe
Chinese-Japanese Cook Book
S ara Bosse PREFACE Chinese cooking in recent years has become very popular in America, and certain Japanese dishes are also in high favor. The rest…
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Tales
Bill, the Lokil Editor
E ugene Field Bill wuz alluz fond uv children 'nd birds 'nd flowers. Aint it kind o' curious how sometimes we find a great, big, awkwar…
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Novel
Cardboard Castle (Part 1)
P. C. Wren CHAPTER I I am going to tell this story in my own way, because I hold very firmly the belief that one's own way is the best way. And …
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Recipe
California Mexican-Spanish Cook Book: Selected Mexican And Spanish Recipes
B ertha Haffner-Ginger PREFACE "Ensaladas Espanol" (Spanish salads) Prepared Vinegar for Spanish Salad Dressing Put a button of garlic, la…
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Stamps
Story
Admiral's Light
H enry Milner Rideout CHAPTER I THE GYPSY MARE Thrusting his tousled head through the trap-door, Miles made his third and last inspection for the nig…
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Book
Admiral Farragut (Part 1)
A. T. Mahan CHAPTER I. FAMILY AND EARLY LIFE. 1801-1811. The father of Admiral Farragut, George Farragut, was of unmixed Spanish descent, having been…
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Literature
Across the Stream
E dward Frederic Benson INTRODUCTION There is a very large class of persons alive to-day who believe that not only is communication with the dead pos…
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History
Across The Reef: The Marine Assault of Tarawa
J oseph H. Alexander In August 1943, to meet in secret with Major General Julian C. Smith and his principal staff officers of the 2d Marine Division,…
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History
Across the Prairie in a Motor Caravan
F rances Halton Eva Hasell CHAPTER I THE CALL OF THE PRAIRIE The diocese of Qu'Appelle, in the province of Saskatchewan, Western Canada, is s…
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Travel
Across the Plains to California in 1852: Journal of Mrs. Lodisa Frizzell
L odisa Frizzell CHAPTER I FROM THE WABASH RIVER[3] TO ST. LOUIS We (that is George Westall Bethel Elliot, my husband[4] & myself) started for Ca…
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Tale
Across the Andes: A Tale of Wandering Days Among the Mountains of Bolivia and the Jungles of the Upper Amazon
C harles Johnson Post CHAPTER I OLD PANAMA, AGAMEMNON, AND THE GENIAL PICAROON [Illustration: ANNOUNCED…
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Book
Story
Adam Penfeather, Buccaneer (Part 1)
J ohn Jeffery Farnol BOOK ONE CHAPTER I TELLS SOMEWHAT OF A FATHER--AND A SON The executioner adjusted his noose and spoke hoarsely in the doomed man…
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Story
Acton's Feud: A Public School Story
F rederick Swainson CHAPTER I THE FOUL Shannon, the old Blue, had brought down a rattling eleven--two Internationals among them--to give the school t…
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Story
Actions and Reactions
R udyard Kipling AN HABITATION ENFORCED My friend, if cause doth wrest thee, Ere folly hath much oppressed thee, Far from …
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Stoyry
Action Front
B oyd Cable IN ENEMY HANDS The last conscious thought in the mind of Private Jock Macalister as he reached the German trench was to get down into it;…
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