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Chile has robbed Bolivia of her corridor to the sea (see above) and Nature has perfected Bolivia's woe by dividing the country into two mismated parts. Her lowlands of orange groves and palms are abundant; but almost totally inaccessible from her enormously high plateaux rich in tin. Without borrowing more than she can now borrow it would be impossible for Bolivia to link her highlands and lowlands by rail. As matters stand the problem of transportation is solved by such primitive means that three out of every four employed Bolivians work as carriers. Even so Bolivia...
...state of great religious unrest, the Society of Friends came into being under the leadership of George Fox (1624-91), an itinerant preacher whose personal habits approached those of a latter-day John the Baptist. Once he walked barefoot through the streets on market day crying, "Woe to the bloody city of Lichfield...
Among other things, he saw Greenwich Village before the realtors "improved" it. He attended the joyous nocturnal picnic given on top of the Washington Square arch by a beautiful girl called Woe...
...also this: 'Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity! Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest the bottle to him, and maketh him drunken also.' (Habakkuk...
Thus to all the faithful wrote last week the Beatissimus Father, Pope Pius XI. He entitled his encyclical. "Miserentissimus Redemptor;" in it. after the above recital of woe, he called upon the faithful to make reparation for the sins of the world-especially on the day sacred to the Sacred Heart of Jesus...