Word: agent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Mirage" by H. L. Rogers is the first instalment of a continued story. It needs pruning, but the dashes of Old Mexican description and dialect give it decided flavor, and the reviewer for one will watch expectantly for a narrative of the rest of the Yankee station agent's experiences with Mexican peons and senoritas...
Stream-flow as an agent in generating electric power is directly dependent upon good forest-cover for its efficiency. With shade protection snow on the mountains melts gradually and feeds the streams uniformly; where there is no shade, there is a period of flood followed by a period of drought and under these conditions the efficiency of the stream flow is greatly lessened. Professor Swain will discuss the various elements in this relation...
...with but slight modification, the view of the laissezfaire school that the State has little or nothing to do with economics, and is weak and likely to remain so. When he asserts in the present work that we are slowly coming to recognize that the State is a great agent for social uplift and that its officials need more freedom of action, less letters in action, he opens the gate for considering every proposition on its own merits and not rejecting it simply because it is in conflict with a cast-off doctrine of the functions of the State...
...Various people come in to buy tickets and get advice; in this way the student, who is really a prince, and who has been dining at the restaurant, meets the girl, and in order to win her away from Mama's Englishman, passes himself off as Cook's agent, and arranges a trip to Naples at his own expense, taking the whole company with him. In Naples they get into and out of complications without much trouble, and fall into each others' arms...
...Miss Elisabeth Stormer Neugebauer, his brother-in-law, E. J. Hubermann uC. Therese, Neugebauer's wife, Mrs. H. H. Hartung Doktor Puschel, Doell's learned cousin, E. L. Hackes '14 Gustav Wenglein, Adelheid's nephew, G. D. Huncke 1G. Johann Jacob Allendorf, E. A. Duncker '14 Leopold Schimmel, insurance agent, H. C. R. B. Habicht '13 Doktor Paul Wagner, a physician, E. F. Lange uC. Lisbeth, a maid, Miss C. Hackebarth