The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Backward Glance at Eighty, by Charles A Murdock ppt

... This form above me The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Backward Glance at Eighty, by Charles A. Murdock This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. ... father and mother, both born in Leominster, were schoolmates, and in due time they married. Father was at first a clerk in the country store, but at an ear...

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... she had easy access to the sea by the river or by land, and an open way inland up the one great natural entrance from the sea into central Italy.[8] SOCIAL LIFE AT ROME IN THE AGE OF CICERO BY ... of Italy; how she advanced up the Tiber valley and its affluents into the heart of the Apennines, and southward into the Oscan country of Samnium and the rich plain of Ca...

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... calculation. To begin with arithmetic means that we take certain numbers we already know about, that is the value of, and by manipulating them, that is performing an operation with them, we are ... up the five 7’s each time; that is if the operation had to be done very often, and so another great short cut was made in the operation of addition and mental calculation took another step...

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... craftsman. The popular belief is that the ability of workers has native limitations, that these limitations are absolute and that they are fixed at or before birth. This belief is a tenet among ... and their ability to control them engenders courage. Indeed it is the absence of fear, rather than the absence of work, that determines the capacity of men for play. It was not accide...

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... tiny, saucer-shaped depression and sat up. Then his courage failed him. Day had at last penetrated to the floor of the valley, and he was appalled at the frightful distance. "Go ahead and make ... stand more than a bare inch and a half above the rock a most difficult object to lasso as such a distance. Time and again Hazard coiled his lariat in true cowboy fashion and...

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... Accounts and Finance. The other is Frank A. Vanderlip, the great financier. The life histories of most men who have succeeded in a large way are equally simple. They have looked ahead, they have planned, ... dreams, it did not occur to either one that he would ever play a big part in solving these problems. A few years later the Harvard graduate became financial editor of the...

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... of elaborate mats, a handful of rather disappointing pearls, a scarlet head-dress with a feather that had been a famous because he had nothing to live for, and suddenly discovering that he had everything ... hundred years. The girl by now had had to let go and had dropped at his feet like a ripe guava—and he was being ushered into the largest bamboo-legged house that the p...

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... street. "That's a a peak of the Rockies, ma'am. And now we are passing the famous statue CONTENTS CHAPTER I A Jolly Good Game II An Exasperating Guest III Picnic Plans IV An Ourday V A Novel ... some stones, to fasten in an upright position, and then they sat down to watch for a passing sail. "Buffaro Bill so s'eepy," announced that small person, and,...

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... begins. thought that he was partly responsible for his mother's death. He turned up at the funeral with a boy seven years old; and bit by bit we learned that he was separated from his wife and that the ... of us—and partly due to his cousin Stanley. Now I don't mean to say for a moment that Stanley Woodward was a natural born villain. I don't think people are born...

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... know what to say. He knew now that Mr. Wharf Rat Grandfather Frog, old Mr. Toad told me that you could tell me how Grandfather Meadow Mouse a thousand times removed lost half of his tail. Will ... see in the dark. "'I see him!' cried Hooty the Owl. 'It's Mr. Wharf Rat!' "'Yes,' said old Mother Nature, 'it's Mr. Wharf Rat—he is the...

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