... profession. As he had fluent command of the German language a useful adjunct to the
practice of a criminal lawyer in New York and gave promise of attaining a high rank as an advocate, Mr.
Howe made him ... AND TEMPTATIONS
THE VEIL LIFTED, AND LIGHT THROWN ON
CRIME AND ITS CAUSES,
AND
Danger! A True History of a Great City's by William Howe and Abra...
... prisoner
near Lake George by Colonel (afterward Sir William) Johnson, in command of the colonial militia and a band
of Mohawk warriors.
The command of the expedition against Beauséjour, in the Acadian ... the sea by dikes many thousand of fertile acres, which produced
abundant crops of grain and orchard fruits; and on the sea meadows at one time grazed as many as sixty
thous...
... between Gonja and Borno.
As power and wealth in the savanna shifted eastwards from Ghana and Mali
to Songhay and then to Hausaland, so merchants from Morocco and modern
Algeria gave way to visitors ... one-sixth and five-ninths of the output of an English broad
handloom. Narrow looms often produced cloth of high quality, especially in
Wolof and Mande country and in Nupe...
... was a pragmatic (i.e. UK) version of audio-lingualism; the key difference from the audio-
lingual approach was that the language presentation and practice was situationalised and so was
always ... Lexical views of language
As early as the 1970s, academic linguists noticed that the language was full of set phrases (e.g. you
don’t say!, onwards and upwards, a man’s gotta do w...
... was avoided
in the name of regulatory forbearance.
Repealing Glass-Steagall
The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 had established a firm separation between commerce and banking in
the financial ... there was no clearinghouse for trades in most of the
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Barth, James R., R. Dan Brumbaugh Jr. and James A. Wilcox, “The Repeal of Glass-Steagall and the Advent of Broad
Ban...
... of heavy rectangular link brass chains
and feature etched glass or end -of- day glass shades typical of the era. A
large four-bulb table lamp with end -of- day glass panels, similar in style
to a ... owner and artisan became one. The largest
of her needlepoints is a five-by-three-foot wall hanging in the dining
room of a red macaw parrot on a floral background (fig. 1). The...
... was
nearer to very ambitious Norman barons. He was great as a warrior; often had his
white steed been seen leading the rush of battle. He was greater as a statesman: friend
and foe said that ... of gold as long as the king
himself, and as thick as his little finger; and a plate of gold, as broad as the king's face,
and as thick as a ploughman's nail.
The...
... clothing and that of his family, have all come from England.
So also have the farming implements and very likely the greater part of his cows and pigs. On his land are
fields of wheat and barley and ... South America to the Strait of Magellan
and up the west coast to California, save the foothold of Portugal, island and mainland belonged to Spain. And
all the rest o...