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... restricting the use of the water of Niagara Falls. The matter was then referred to the secretary of war, William Howard Taft, to grant the use of such volume of water as would preserve the beauty of the ... in the city; they considered themselves good citizens if they kept their own places sightly, but the idea of devoting their evenings to the problems of...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 17:15

... and they set about to secure it. Now, the truth is, of course, that there are no "literary back-stairs" to the editorial office of the modern magazine. There cannot be. The making of ... might have led them--where would have been the limit? XXV. The President and the Boy One of the incidents connected with Edward Bok that Theodore Roosevelt never forgot w...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 23:15

... understand the genius and the kindliness of the son. For the sake of the public's knowledge, it is a distinct loss that there is not a better understanding of the real sweetness of character of the ... weather. The atmosphere of the smoking-room was forbidding, and as the rooms of the rest of the party were below deck, it was decided to make Bok&...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 19:15

... in the gowns of the declasse street-women of Paris. The somewhat sensational nature of the articles attracted the attention of the American newspapers, which copied and commented on them; the ... by the gross, and sold in bundles to the retailers. Bok secured a list of the buyers of these labels and found that they represented some of the leading merchant...

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... and the result was that the succession of ships leaving the port of Philadelphia was a credit to the generosity of the people of the city and the commonwealth. The Commission delegated one of ... distinction as one of the most efficient troops in the vicinity of Philadelphia. They won nearly all the prizes offered in their vicinity, and elicited the speci...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 17:15

... the selection of the subjects, gave a fresh impetus to the circulation of the magazine; and now that the government's embargo on the use of paper had been removed, the full editions of the ... and then followed the booming of a shell as it landed. "Yes, won't you, sir?" asked the boy on the right cot as he held out his hand. Bok took it, a...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 00:15

... matter. I heard mothers tell their little children that if they did not behave themselves, the policeman would put them into a bag and carry them off, or cut their ears off. Of course, the policeman ... in"; when the panic was over, they "let out." But the end of one year found them The Legal Small Print 176 precisely where they were at the close of the prev...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 16:15

... sales of Project Gutenberg Etexts or other materials be they hardware or software or any other related product without express permission.] The Americanization of Edward Bok The Autobiography of ... birds. So grateful were the birds for their resting-place that they chose one end of the island as a special spot for the laying of their eggs and the raising of thei...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 21:20

... picture. At the office of the cigarette company he learned that the making of the pictures was in the hands of the The Legal Small Print 18 Knapp Lithographic Company. The following luncheon hour, Edward ... no conception of it at the time. The Fifth Avenue Hotel, in those days the stopping-place of the majority of the famous men and women visiting New Yo...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 21:20

... lift, put them late at night on the front platform of the street-cars, and take them to the postoffice. Thus the boys absolutely knew the growth of their circulation by the weight of their bundles ... gratuitously to the aid of the editor. At first, the circulation of the magazine permitted the boys to wrap the copies themselves; and then they, with two other...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 17:20