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... THE WILSON North Adams, Mass. Table d'hote dinners served on Sund'ys H.J. Rockwell & .Son The Auto Strop SafetyRaxor Tha One Gomplete Razor Safety Ra... ...g Dinner 6.30 to 8.30 o'clock Table d'hote dinners served on Sund'ys H. J. Rockwell & Son The Auto Strop SafetyRazor The One Comptete Razor Safety Raz... ... Elegant Goes & Stodder 14 School Street, I)os*.on College Shoes I'red E ".rocke. Representative Bemis' every two weeks * Cbe Richmond Tfte iUcllingte... ...g Dinner 6.30 to 8.30 o'clock Table d'hote dinners served on Sund'ys H. J. Rockwell& Son The Auto Strop SafetyRmxor The One Oompleie Razor Safety Razo... ...eek. CALENDAR MONDAY, DECEMBER 9 8.00 p. m.—Lecture on "A Camel Journey in Chinese Turkestan' ' by Mr. Huntington uf Yale. T. B. L. TUESDAY, DECEMBER ... ...ngers over the Himalaya moun- tains and across the salt and sand plains of Chinese Turkestan was described by Mr. Ellsworth Hunt- ington of Yale unive... ...Organization Brain Brokers. ) Broadway and Duanc Street . . . _ New York A Chinese Detert Continued from page 1, Col. 4 peaks which rise to a nearly u... ... the oirouitoua route around the range was traversed instead. The basin of Chinese Turkes- slan. lying beyond the wall of the mountains, is a vast pla... ...he natives of this strip are of Aryan stock, although thay are goTerned by Chinese offi- cials. They live in hatred of the desert which hems them in, ...
... crops; NA% meadows and pastures; NA% forest and woodland; NA% other; mostly rock with sparse scrub oak, few trees, some commercial salt ponds Environ... ...32% Buddhist and indigenous beliefs Language: Malay (official), English, and Chinese Life expectancy: 73.7 Literacy: 45% Labor force: 68,128 (includes... ...tive Burmese Ethnic divisions: 68% Burman, 9% Shan, 7% Karen, 4% Raljome, 3% Chinese, 2% Indian, 7% other Religion: 85% Buddhist, 15% indigenous belie... ...dian(s); adjec- tive Cambodian Ethnic divisions: 90% Khmer (Cambo- dian), 5% Chinese, 5% other minorities Religion: 95% Theravada Buddhism, 5% other L... ...perate; warm, dry, summer precipitation very erratic Terrain: steep, rugged, rocky, volcanic Land use: 9% arable land; NEGL% per- manent crops; 6% mea... ...n, $320 per capita (1983) 44 Cayman Islands Natural resources: salt, basalt rock, pozzo- lana, limestone, kaolin Agriculture: main crops bananas, cof... ...,064,147,038 (July 1987), average annual growth rate 0.99% Nationality: noun Chinese (sing., pi.); adjective Chinese Ethnic divisions: 93.3% Han Chine... ..., Taoism, and Buddhism; about 2-3% Mus- lim, 1% Christian Language: Standard Chinese (Putonghua) or Mandarin (based on the Beijing dialect); also Yue ... ...xclusive fishing zone: 200 nm Territorial sea: 3 nm Boundary disputes: none; Rockall conti- nental shelf dispute involving Iceland, Ireland, and UK Cl...
... thoughts strayed to a time when he was very young and sat on this same ancient rock with his grandfather. "The warrior is like a hunter who waits p... ...t would be long after his death. Seattle shifted his position on the worn flat rock that laid, per haps, for centuries beside the Green River. His ... ..., and with hardly a move the gnarled hand flicked the silver fish onto the flat rock. The fish gasped for air and then, after a moment, lay still. T... ...been hallowed by some fond me.mory or some sad experience of my tribe. Even the rocks, which seem to lay dumb as they swelter in the sun along the s... ...trail he had just come from, which was really no trail at all, only a dried up, rock strewn river bed that snaked from the wooded forest that he had... ...n solve it. 'IS Johnathan Cross It won't be easy, but it is solvable. As the Chinese say, 'In every crisis there is opportunity'." River Song gr...
...as an undesirable acquaintance. Manuel had one besetting sin. He loved to play Chinese lottery. Also, in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness —... ...hey could hardly have fared worse. At their backs rose a perpendicular wall of rock, and Perrault and Franc ¸ois were compelled to make their fire and ... ...the ice and left them to eat supper in the dark. Close in under the sheltering rock Buck made his nest. So snug and warm was it, that he was loath to ... ... cried in particular over each discarded thing. She clasped hands about knees, rocking back and forth broken heartedly. She averred she would not go a... ...e sitting on the crest of a cliff which fell away, straight down, to naked bed rock three hundred feet below. John Thorn ton was sitting near the edg... ... off his master. At a particularly bad spot, where a ledge of barely submerged rocks jutted out into the river, Hans cast off the rope, and, while Tho...
...aid, “This gradual and continuous progress of the European race toward the Rocky Mountains has the so- lemnity of a providential event; it is like a d... ... are not walled in, like most of those in the Old World, between hills and rocks. Their banks are flat, and rise but a few feet 27 Tocqueville above ... ..., while the other rises in an uninterrupted course towards the tops of the Rocky Mountains. At the bottom of the valley flows an immense river, into w... ...rile; the ground is, as it were, pierced in a thousand places by primitive rocks, which appear like the bones of a skeleton whose flesh is partly cons... ...rnish to the nations among which it exists. T ravellers assure us that the Chinese have peace without hap- piness, industry without improvement, stabi... ...America motionless state in which they found the minds of this people. The Chinese, in following the track of their forefathers, had forgotten the rea... ...ment, but they no longer possessed the art of altering or renewing it. The Chinese, then, had lost the power of change; for them to improve was impos-... ...ther that the language should be made hideous with words imported from the Chinese, the Tartars, or the Hurons, than that the meaning of a word in our... ... now so rooted in the manners of the people that I remember to have read a Chinese novel, in which the hero, after numberless crosses, succeeds at len...
... Understand Bulakan Know Baliwag page 27 4. Spanish Period page 45 5. The Founding Families of Baliwag page 50 6. Tsinoys page 129 7. Dr. Rizal’s Chinese Ancestors page 165 8. Año 1733 The Making of a Town page 170 9. Let us learn about the Agustinian Friars page 189 10. Añ0 1800 What Transpired page 219 11. Año 1850 The Natives Got Their Family Name page 226 12....
...e recollect the time she shot the Moosehorn Rapids to pull you and me off that rock, the bullets whipping the water like hailstones? — and the time of... ...irits speculated on desertion and the possibility of crossing the un explored Rockies to the east, and thence, by the Mackenzie Valley, of gaining th... ...sh, the seal, and the otter; and our homes shouldered about one another on the rocky strip between the An Odyssey of the North 69 rim of the forest a... ...no word of the ship, nor in Kadiak, nor in Atognak. And so I came one day to a rocky land, where men dug great holes in the mountain. And there was a ... ...ain. And there was a schooner, but not my schooner, and men loaded upon it the rocks which they dug. This thought childish, for all the world was made... ...e what was inside, and, after being sick for a week, the man had died. But the Chinese had not complained to the French devils that ruled over Tahiti.... ... work the miles of sugar cane where once our horses pastured, they brought the Chinese slaves from over seas. And with them came the Chinese sickness ... ... say to you it is unjust to steal a man’s land, to make that man sick with the Chinese sickness, and then to put that man in prison for life.” “Life i... ...h which Koolau the Leper 367 to work the stolen land, they had brought in the Chinese coolies, and with them had come the sickness. And now, because ...
...e out a faint scent of sandal wood. His fancy was stirred by a goggle-eyed Chinese monster, with mouth awry and twisted limbs, the invention of a peop... ...ar-skinned peaches, oranges brought from Setubal by steamer, pomegranates, Chinese fruit; in short, all the surprises of luxury, miracles of confectio... ...ea- sure of striking out in some lonely lake of clear water, with forests, rocks, and flowers around, and the soft stirring of the warm breeze,—all th... ...the desert like theirs, hewing out my ideas as they were wont to hew their rocks. I could at need have girdled my waist with spikes, that physi- cal s... ...ho sleep before their approaching ex- ecution, or with a duel in prospect, rocked as they are by delusive hopes. But when I woke, when I was cool and ... ...!” shouted the banker. These phrases flew about like the last discharge of rockets at the end of a display of fireworks; and were uttered, per- haps, ... ...ncholy and sad. Emblem of the doom of wealth! He flies across Paris like a rocket, and reaches the peristyle of the Theatre Favart. The passers-by mak... ...t a fearful machine!” “Instead of flinging their brats into the water, the Chinese ought to make them useful in this way,” the man of science went on,...
...ome effect; but I cannot expect, like Orpheus, to change the nature of the rocks and trees and beasts. I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation... ... racy, is a progress toward a true respect for the indi vidual. Even the Chinese philosopher was wise enough to regard the individual as the basis o...
...nd robust body, and of a strong and active mind; yet, as in the most solid rocks veins of unsound substance are often discovered, there was in him a m... ...in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. ‘Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man str... ...f the World, a series of letters supposed to be writ- ten from London by a Chinese. No man had the art of displaying with more advantage as a writer, ... ...ffusion, and affluence of conversation; but I would not talk to him of the Rockingham party.’ Goldsmith. ‘But, Sir, when people live together who have... ... false accounts. A great part of their language is proverbial. If anything rocks at all, they say it rocks like a cradle; and in this way they go on. ... ...with hills covered with woods, and walks neatly formed along the side of a rocky steep, on the quarter next the house with re- cesses under projection...
... of the quays had not cooled, night or day, for months. Hindoos, Russians, Chinese, Spaniards, Por- tuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolita... ... trod the dust, and finally leaped over, dashing herself to death upon the rocks below. Such is the train of incidents which malice has perverted into... ...th nothing but commas, and very few of them, ‘that you are married to some Chinese lady, being in China so long and being in busi- ness and naturally ... ...our connec- tion nothing was more likely than that you should propose to a Chinese lady and nothing was more natural I am sure than that the Chinese l... ...swer, I don’t know where I’m running to, oh do tell me something about the Chinese ladies whether their eyes are really so long and nar- row always pu... ... so natural, Mr Clennam far more proper—since you became familiar with the Chinese customs and language which I am persuaded you speak like a Native i... ...ation of her lover, Little Dorrit, with her hands to her averted face, and rocking herself where she stood as if she were in pain, murmured, ‘O father... ...vegetable growth save a poor brown scrubby moss, freezing in the chinks of rock. Blackened skel- eton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to th... ...ad been sobbing, kept them silent. At length, a light on the summit of the rocky staircase gleamed through the snow and mist. The guides called to the...
... of the quays had not cooled, night or day, for months. Hindoos, Russians, Chinese, Spaniards, Por- tuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolita... ... trod the dust, and finally leaped over, dashing herself to death upon the rocks below. Such is the train of incidents which malice has perverted into... ...th nothing but commas, and very few of them, ‘that you are married to some Chinese lady, being in China so long and being in busi- ness and naturally ... ...our connec- tion nothing was more likely than that you should propose to a Chinese lady and nothing was more natural I am sure than that the Chinese l... ...swer, I don’t know where I’m running to, oh do tell me something about the Chinese ladies whether their eyes are really so long and nar- row always pu... ... so natural, Mr Clennam far more proper—since you became familiar with the Chinese customs and language which I am persuaded you speak like a Native i... ...ation of her lover, Little Dorrit, with her hands to her averted face, and rocking herself where she stood as if she were in pain, murmured, ‘O father...
... and govern empires. 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ―the wasps’ secret‖ and then develop printing b... ...ve, nonverbal mnemonic methods. They used crude tools, such as sticks, rock, and bone, to draw pictures on the walls of caves. They also notched ... ...twenty-six letters 7 seem minuscule when compared to the thousand basic Chinese characters or the hundreds of hieroglyphs or cuneiform signs. ABCs... ... In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. CHAPTER 6 ―Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and a cent... ...cried the absence of such decorative embellishments in printed books. Chinese writing serves multiple tongues Chinese reigns as the oldest wri... ...ten language in continuous use since the time of its invention. Royal Chinese priests, according to the Oriental Institute‘s Christopher Woods, ... ...gles, Saxons and Jutes come in waves The cradle of the English we speak rocked in the homelands of invading Germanic tribes. About the time the... ...entage of the national economy down through history, only that of John D. Rockefeller exceeded Carnegie‘s, according to the blog Neatorama. At th...
...n mightier than the sword, generating the powers of knowledge needed to create and govern empires. -- 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings-For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ?the wasps’ secret? and then develop printing blocks—the precursor to Gutenberg’s wondrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. -- 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts t...
...authority told them it was acceptable.(3) I guess that we shouldn‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chines... ... counted on to break into song with the repertoire of Sophie Tucker, that 1920‘s songstress whose ample body produced the powerful tunes that rocked... ...ies or kindergarten teachers or 37,000 female grape pickers— would the number of breast cancer cases have been the same? What if we took 37,000 Chines... ...ome imams salves their power drives with votives of violence. ―It‘s much easier for poor youths to burn cars and buses and to throw rocks ... ...us minority. It is incomprehensible to most of us the inhumane horrors that some human minds have conjured and carried out. Waterboarding, the Chines... ...b screws and iron masks pale to the rack, being lowered face down in boiling oil or lead, being tied to a wide wooden wheel and rolled down a rocky ... ...rives and interests. Another element of Jung's thinking is of more importance today. Jung saw psychological meanings in the teachings of the Chines... ... person releases strong emotional feelings against something, or someone, who was not the actual cause of the anxiety. A student might throw a rock t... ...was definitely a peak experience. ―Another was approaching Saturn‘s rings. And one of the big ones was returning to earth, seeing the Rockie...
...ur—it was the mere play of her joy. “I think he could make you like him in Chinese.” “It would be an unnecessary trouble. What I mean is that he’s a k... ...n storey buildings. Your moral sense works by steam—it sends you up like a rocket. Ours is slow and steep and unlighted, with so many of the steps mis... ...f queer light shades and of strange straw like textures, of the aspect of Chinese mats, provocative of wonder at his sources of supply, suggested the... ...ion condensed, concrete, consummate, set down by his hands as a house on a rock—a house from whose open doors and windows, open to grateful, to thirst... ...iseries; but she actually this evening did n’t mind—he might deal with her Chinese as he could. Maggie indeed would always have had for such moments, ... ...lone together, however, she mounted, with the whizz and the red light of a rocket. from the form to the fact, saying straight out as she stood and loo... ...s off and off, so as not to arrive; she keeps out to sea and away from the rocks, and what she most wants of me is to keep at a safe distance with her... ...very glare of his observation, she balanced for thirty seconds, she almost rocked: she might have been for the time, in all her conscious person, the ...
...e English should discontinue it through fickleness. I am informed that the Chinese have practised inoculation these hundred years, a circumstance that... ...ey are thought to be the wisest and best governed people in the world. The Chinese, indeed, do not communicate this distemper by inoculation, but at t... ...n for so great a series of years), which was the terror of mankind and the rock against which philosophy split, placed by Aristotle below the moon, an...
...by permitting divorce, but by making it compulsory in certain cases as the Chinese do. 57 Getting Married When the great protest of the XVI century c... ...the next election. And then lost it all the same: on cordite, on drink, on Chinese labor in South Africa, on all sorts of trumpery. REGINALD [lurching... ...l about them. And thats how I know more of the world than you. LESBIA. The Chinese know what a man is like when he is cut into a thousand pieces, or b... ... boot-laces than a lock of your hair. [He folds his arms and stands like a rock]. REGINALD. You damned scoundrel, how dare you throw my wife over like...
...ng in the long run more than a match for the fitful energy of one man. The Chinese government, a bureaucracy of Mandarins, is, as far as known to us, ... ...t very properly lead to their rejection by the electors at the time of the Chinese quarrel (though in itself a more doubtful question), because it was... ...ion, and the dignity and prestige of French power—than to sulk on his own rocks, the half savage relic of past times, revolving in his own little men...
... aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigners, negro, French, or Chinese – you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of accent as in... ...re form and old straw hat from the garden in the lap of the hill, with its rocks overgrown with clematis, its shadowy walks, and the splendid breadth ... ...he moss under the Shearer’s Knowe, and makes one pool there, overhung by a rock, where I loved to sit and make bad verses, and is then kidnapped in it... ...th a sudden, loud haw-haw, hearty but somehow joyless, like an echo from a rock. His face was permanently set and coloured; ruddy and stiff with weath... ... us the pirate and the Lord of the Isles; I was with him, too, on the Bell Rock, in the fog, when the Smeaton had drifted from her moorings, and the A... ...his tongue could utter audible words; and once more with him when the Bell Rock beacon took a “thrawe,” and his workmen fled into the tower, then near...
...arying stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and -- setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigners, negro, French, or Chinese -- you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of accent as in the forty miles between Edinburgh and Glasgow, or of dialect as in the hundred miles between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Book English has gone round the...
...?’ ‘No.’ The smile on the Serjeant’s countenance became more de fined; he rocked his leg with increased violence; and, throw ing himself back in his... ... rable conduct causing the lady and Mr. Stiggins to close their eyes, and rock themselves to and fro on their chairs, in a troubled manner, he furthe... ...emen, my uncle leaped out of the coach at once, with such violence that it rocked on the springs again. ‘“Oh! you’ve thought better of it, have you?” ... ... Mr. Pickwick. ‘They appeared in the form of a copious review of a work on Chinese metaphysics, Sir,’ said Pott. ‘Oh,’ observed Mr. Pickwick; ‘from yo...
...s A shadow on the wall in which my mind’s eye can discern some traces of a rocky sea coast, recalls to me a fearful story of travel derived from that ... ... East Indiaman outward bound, driving madly on a January night towards the rocks near Seacombe, on the island of Purbeck! The captain’s two dear daugh... ...ely made, might possibly have procured. ‘The ship continued to beat on the rocks; and soon bilg ing, fell with her broadside towards the shore. When ... ...commended that all should come to the side of the ship lying lowest on the rocks, and singly to take the opportunities which might then offer, of esca... ...ithout describing the place where it happened. The Haleswell struck on the rocks at a part of the shore where the cliff is of vast height, and rises a... ... think of it in a warm bath. Very like a small room that I remember in the Chinese baths upon the Boulevard, certainly; and, though I see it through t... ...pans nothing, growing out from the roots of the willow; and the three blue Chinese going over it into a blue temple, which has a fine crop of blue bus...
...eaming, but no one heard him. He fell into the creek and hit his head on a rock at the bottom. “Nate, Nate, are you out there?” his friends yelled. Al... ... the foursome from Liverpool, The Beatles, have endured throughout pop and rock’n’roll music. The Beatles’ origin traces back to the growing British s... ... Ringo Star, the clown. With these qualities they single-handedly reshaped rock’n’roll. David Binning remarks on the band’s sixth release, Rubber Soul... ...ubmarine.” Also songs like “She Said She Said” and “T axman” show a harder rock sound in their music. With strong individual qualities, the Beatles pl... ...MEMBER can be the hardest experience to cope with. For many Koreans, the Chinese New Year is a day to spend quality time with family. Nine years ago... ...to spend quality time with family. Nine years ago, I had a chance to spend Chinese New Year in Korea. On February 8, 1990 I was in a small town outsid... ...erent social patterns than before? The late 1980’s was a big time for hard rock and heavy metal bands, but school shootings were practically unheard o...
...m foundering in such circumstances, by any amount of breakwater and broken rock. I do not understand the way in which the waves are spoken of, and pre... ...leverly proposed to write it, the sound of ZH. Yoshida was very learned in Chinese letters, or, as we might say, in the classics, and in his father’s ... ...e the better prepared, Y oshida set himself to teach, and he to learn, the Chinese literature. It is an episode most honourable to Yoshida, and yet mo... ...ng back – a far-travelled weapon – to Japan. A long letter was prepared in Chinese for the American officers; it was revised and corrected by Sakuma, ... ...nce to the sentiment of both 112 Robert Louis Stevenson when he sang, “in Chinese singing” (so that we see he had already profited by his lessons), t... ...a look from his eye, and bade him farewell in a loud voice, with these two Chinese verses:– “It is better to be a crystal and be broken, Than to remai... ... old infamy will pop out into daylight like a toad out of a fissure in the rock, and the shadow of the shade of what was once a man will be heartily p...