Word: mille
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...regard it not as the common link between the settlements, but as a private resource to be exploited by whichever village could, to the exclusion of the rest. It wau Abraham Shaw of Dedham who first had the bright idea of using the river to power a public grist mill. The town was enthusiastic and work began immediately, in 1636. Unfortunately, dramatic alterations in Shaw's scheme proved necessary, as the Charles was simply too lazy to turn a mill. These alterations were left to John Elderkin, who diverted the river down a precipitous slope to his grist mill. This...
...changes were to come to the Charles River in the nineteenth century. A great slice of the basin at the river mouth was to be filled in. The process was set in motion when the city of Boston decided it needed to expand. First it filled in the large Mill Pond near what is now the North End. To replace the water power (used for turning the city's grist mills) produced by the dam around the Mill Pond, the Legislature approved in 1819 a new dam stretching from what is now Brighton across the Back Bay to the Boston...
Died. Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, 88, Britain's most celebrated and controversial military leader during World War II, who in 1942 led his countrymen to their initial victory over the Germans at El Alamein in northern Egypt; at Isington Mill, Hampshire (see THE WORLD...
...language and to his wider concerns, he excels at the traditional critic's touchstone of talent, the actual reading of a text. Marcus's ability to illuminate unseen aspects of familiar texts and to enrich their meaning is quite remarkable. In his book on Engels (1974), by contrasting Mill's and Dickens's responses to London to those of Engels, Marcus brings out at exactly what point in The Condition of the English Working Classes in 1844 Engels understands the industrial revolution in a systematic way inaccessible to his British contemporaries...
...interest group will demand its accustomed larger share of a non-expanding pie, causing disillusion, further inflation and possible class conflict (which translates into "chaos" for most of the Public Interest theorists). In an economy which can no longer afford to sate hedonism, the individualistic legacy of John Stuart Mill must be traded in for the approach of the principled conservatives, Burke and Tocqueville. Enlightened economic self-interest is no longer a sufficient rationale for the continuation of capitalism: the masses must now be provided with a new "liberal" philosophy justifying restraint in the national interest, lest a more extreme...