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...Blackman) who lives by a rule that might well raise obstacles for Joe: "Only one thing I ask from you-be honest." Joe follows his mistress to Lon don to earn success on his own merit, but every thread of his being leads straight back home to Brown & Hether-sett's woolens...
...trader from Boston, steered the schooner Columbia past the dangerous reefs at the river's mouth and named the mighty stream after his ship. John Boit, fifth mate of the Columbia, wrote prophetically that "This River in my opinion, wou'd be a fine place for to sett up a Factory." The Columbia became a vital artery of the region's fur trade, and then of the salmon-canning and lumber industries, but only in the 1930s, with the construction of a series of big power dams on the Columbia, beginning with Grand Coulee, did men really...
Forbidden Temples. In this sort of land all but a handful of the most fervent idealists turn cynical, and only Communists consistently rejoice. Sett Rao. a hardworking, intelligent government official, who once dreamed that independent India would be "a decent country where decent people can live in decency and some dignity," now says: "I shrug; I laugh; I work. What else is there to do?'' Campbell traveled with Vasagam. another government agent, who was trying to implement the Gandhian ideal of equality for the untouchables. In a typical village he saw the higher castes stand sullenly...
...ELIZABETH BROUGHTON : "She lost her Mayden-head to a poor young fellow ... in 1660 . . . and away she gott to London, and did sett up for her selfe. She was a most exquisite beautie, as finely shaped as Nature could frame . . . and her price was very deare . . . Richard, Earle of Dorset, kept her [but] at last she grew common and infamous and gott the Pox, of which she died ... I remember thus much of an old song...
...Advices from America indicate a serious state of affairs. . . . This therefore appears a favorable moment to sett dollar securities and bring back the money to this country. ... In existing world conditions, this is the safest place for the Englishman to keep his money...