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...Negroes would hop at the chance to escape the white man's yoke, live on the white man's subsidies until they establish farms and businesses. They would progress from a military government to a territorial commonwealth, finally to an independent republic. Their promised land would adjoin little Liberia, which a U. S. society set up for Negro freedmen...
...enters each lung through a bronchus, which branches from the windpipe (trachea). A bronchus subdivides successively into bronchioles, air ducts (ductuli alveolares), air pockets (atria), lobules. Lobules bulge with many air sacs (acini) which look like clusters of grapes. Walls of the lobules adjoin walls of capillaries in which the pulmonary veins and pulmonary arteries terminate. The pulmonary arteries bring dark blood loaded with carbon dioxide from the body's tissues to the lobules. The lobules treat the blood with fresh oxygen, leaving it pure and crimson...
...Corso Umberto Primo or Street of Humbert I is Rome's "Central Street," ends at Il Duce's office, contains the best shops, better-than-Broadway hotels, adjoins theatres and would adjoin "hotspots" except that Il Duce has drastically cooled all these...
...Roger T. Twitchell '16, headmaster of Browne and Nichols school, whose boat house and playing grounds adjoin the land where the Cambridge and of the span will rest, said yesterday: "The suggested building of a bridge at this point will make access to the school easier and will open out the large marsh area below the cemetery to proper policing. To this part of the plan I have no objection whatsoever, but the shifting of the river bed, I consider somewhat extravagant...
When Counsel Curtin moved to adjourn, the stenographer taking his speech down phonetically recorded it "adjoin...