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...inciting you against the President's program? I'll tell you what you got. . . . You got destitution and the road to ruin. . . . If instead of making the President's task harder by misunderstanding, you continue to give him your patience and your support, he will lick this ghastly farm disparity...
...usual amount of pleasuring he settled down to married life with Penny. The Civil War never seemed real to Grammy and his fellow-slaves till the soldiers began to come and commandeer stock. When three Confederate divisions marched by one day, Grammy knew that the Yankees could never lick so many men. But then the overseer had to join the army, and with the white folks gone the slaves began to fade away. Grammy had been left in charge, but finally he faded too. In New Orleans he was much surprised to be told he was free, not nearly...
...buck had bruised its flank badly when something, probably dogs, frightened it, and its mate now lying dead in the gorge below, into scrambling over great boulders onto the ledge. It might have rested there comfortably, with dew to lick and foliage to nibble, until it got well enough to scramble back the way it had come. But Man was everywhere. Men gathered by hundreds along the path on the chasm's opposite bank. Men threw a threatening bridge straight across to the ledge. Worst of all, they descended terrifyingly from...
...that as many as 40 "shooting stars" can be seen in one minute with the Naka eye. There will be an exhibit of outstanding stellar photography, and an observation and identity of constellations if the weather permits. The development of astronomical equipment, illustrations of the Hooker telescope, the famous Lick observatory, spectroscopes, and the work Harvard has done in solar studies in South Africa, will be shown...
...past week cloudy conditions have made these observations difficult. The 24 inch instrument is now testing a photoelectric cell that will be used in measuring the luminosity of faint stars. This is also the instrument that will open the World's Fair in case it is cloudy at the Lick Observatory on June...