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...decree of the Legislative Council of Sierra Leone, an appointive body chairmaned by the British Governor and containing a minority of native chiefs. The anti-slavery decree allows no compensation to onetime slave owners, gives to each freed slave the right to claim a plot of the now too plenteous waste Government land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 200,000 Slaves | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Jan. 2, 1928 | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...difficult to Americanize. This plan deserves consideration. We know that it would tend to admit those immigrants that we desire and keep out these whom we do not. He also suggests that we admit more immigrants at times when we need labor than in times when labor is plenteous, but this idea seems filled with many objections. Great confusion would result. It would work hardships on the immigrants. Labor conditions are apt to be parallel in different countries, and at times when we most needed them they would not want to come and vice versa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM | 10/29/1920 | See Source »

After a very jolly evening at the Colonial last night, the audience came to a conclusion that the princess was not the only "slim" thing connected with the show. No fault could have been found with the house, for it was both plenteous and enthusiastic. What could have been the trouble...

Author: By T. P. S., | Title: New Plays in Boston | 11/15/1911 | See Source »

...urgent need of new members in order to enlarge to the utmost its capabilities; and we fail to see why Harvard, already so justly renowned in classics, mathematics, and philology, should look with sluggish indifference upon the great field of early English literature, where "the harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few." The glory of Chaucer's poetry will surely not grow dim in future years, nor the sweet music of our morning of song die away. Let all lovers of what is pure and noble in English literature do their best to stimulate a study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

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