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...going to get some money if I can and then I will be a naturalist. If I succeed, I can then get my own papers and drawings printed and help my father at the Museum.' The story of his struggle to make the mines a paying investment, to undo the false steps that had been taken, and of the marvelous success that ultimately attended it reads like a romance...
...treason. A popular uproar arose at the proposition to erect a monument to Taine, who through his stimulating and ultimately creative power was one of the greatest minds of his time, and added widely to the literary reputation of France. People believed that his principles, if carried out, would undo the Revolution. He was in their eyes criminally neglectful of the rights of the common people. The national idea of democracy is the breaking of tradition, violently if necessary, in order to uphold the mass against the upper classes...
...back. By violent exertion of the trunk he managed to work the strap fastening his hands up to his left shoulder and then slipped it forward by grinding his shoulder on the floor. It was then possible for him to unbuckle this strap with his teeth, and to undo with his hands, although enclosed in the sleeves, the strap behind his neck. Thus the jacket was sufficiently loosened to enable him to drag it over his head...
...broke up the agreement among the pipe-lines, the Standard Oil Company with its pipe-lines was able to exact still greater favors from the railroads entering Cleveland, and by its superior capital, was able to absorb its weaker rivals. . . . Nothing in subsequent years has been able to undo the shrewd use, by Mr. Rockefeller and his associates, of peculiar opportunities, presented from 1865 till 1877 in the railway and refining industry...
...with certain members of the Faculty, and the students presented a petition concerning the method of celebrating a victory. As yet no action has been taken, and everything is hanging in the balance. A little exhibition of a wrong spirit tonight, or the firing of any explosives whatsoever, may undo all the good that has been done and take away the chance of celebrating future victories in the way that we feel they ought to be celebrated...