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...dern war is an intolerable thing. It is not a thing to trifle with in this Urban District Council way, it is a thing to end forever. I have always hat... ...the sound of a Zeppelin one night in Essex for all my experience of actual warfare. But my bedroom at the British mission in Udine roused perhaps extr... ...zo along the Alpine boundary round to the Swiss boundary there is mountain warfare like nothing else in the world; it is warfare that pushes the bound... ...rld; it is warfare that pushes the bound- ary backward, but it is mountain warfare that will not, for so long a period that the war will be over first... ...HE MOUNTAIN AIN AIN AIN AIN W W W W WAR AR AR AR AR 1 1 1 1 1 THE MOUNTAIN WARFARE of Italy is extraordinarily unlike that upon any other front. From ... ...ly vari- ous and subtle. You may understand Picardy on a map, but mountain warfare is three-dimensional. A struggle may go on for weeks or months cons...

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... its own telephone. The mono-rail cable standard became a striking fact in urban landscape, for the most part stout iron erections rather like taperin... ...It was a period altogether unique in the world’s history. The apparatus of warfare, the, art and method of fighting, changed absolutely every dozen ye... ...d and rain, guns roared, shells crashed home, and, after the old manner of warfare, men toiled and died. 4 4 4 4 4 As the afternoon wore on the lower ... ...necessary everyday incident of a state of war, but very distressing to his urbanised imagination. One writes “urbanised” to express the distinctive ge... ...hat makes the complete separa- tion that had arisen between the methods of warfare and the necessity of democratic support, is the effectual secrecy o... ...ular points. They realised that the chief danger 121 H G Wells in aerial warfare from an excitable and intelligent public would be a clamour for loc... ...e or guard or garrison a surrendered position. Necessarily, in the face of urban populations in a state of economic disorganisation and infuriated and... ...he Communist insurrection of Paris, 1871, of the possibilities of a modern urban population under warlike stresses. A second peculiarity of airship wa... .... Except in its moments of descent, the balloon was a vehicle of faultless urbanity; this was a buck—jumping mule, a mule that jumped up and never cam...

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... which we live. They did not very greatly alter the weapons and tactics of warfare, the methods of agriculture, seamanship, their knowledge of the hab... ... intelligence had been sought to specialise in and work out the problem of warfare with the new appli- ances and under modern conditions, but a succes... ...lls then our own came up and asked them not to, and—the practice of aerial warfare still being unknown—they very politely desisted and went away and d... ...mbat- ive animal; innumerable generations had passed their lives in tribal warfare, and the weight of tradition, the example of history , the ideals o... ... The World Set Free den his one profound discovery about the modern art of warfare, the key to his career. And this discovery was that nobody knew, th... ... ection 4 ection 4 ection 4 ection 4 THE STATE OF MIND of the dispossessed urban population which swarmed and perished so abundantly over the coun- tr... ...ver he was liv- ing close at hand in a tent made of carpets—and he had ‘an urbane but insistent manner,’ a carefully trimmed moustache and beard, expr... ... So quite insensibly the council drifted into a complete reorganisation of urban and industrial life, and indeed of the entire social system. Ideas th... ... that time…. And while this settlement of the country was in progress, the urban camps of the first phase of the council’s activities were rapidly dev...

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... luckiest shots was a description (in “An- ticipations” in 1900) of trench warfare, and of a deadlock almost exactly upon the lines of the situation a... ...on- centrated upon that; the types of ability that are not appli- cable to warfare are neglected; there is a vast destruction of capital and a waste o... ... would have held them indefinitely. But the Allies had never worked trench warfare; they were unready for it, Germans knew of their unreadiness, and t... ... the middle of this high road is a frontier. The south side belongs to the urban district of Braintree; the north to the rural district of Bocking. If... ...ng observer the rurality of the Bocking side is indistinguishable from the urbanity of the Braintree side; it is just a little muddier. But there are ... ...bump against the most un- worldly. And when one goes up the scale from the urban district and rural district boundaries, one finds equally crazy count... ...ion people in the British Isles, men and women, either engaged directly in warfare or in the manufacture of munitions or in employments such as transi... ...many sees fit to identify herself with Hohenzollern dreams of empire and a warfare of massa- cre and assassination, there must be war henceforth, open...

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... them but either some such League or else great humiliation and disastrous warfare driving them down towards social dissolution; and for the United St... ...ng disproportion between the tortures and destructions inflicted by modern warfare and any possible advantages that may arise from it. Underlying both... ... These states were scarcely more than what we English might call sovereign urban districts. Fast communications were made by runners; even the policem... ...ions were made by runners; even the policeman with a bicycle of the modern urban district was beyond the scope of the Greek imagination. There were no...

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...pia will have, of course, faultless roads and beautifully arranged in- ter-urban communications, swift trains or motor services or what not, to diffus... ...are of the area affected. A maximum fraction of private enclosure for each urban and suburban square mile could be fixed. A distinction could be drawn... ...d out over the land in finer reticulations, growing close and dense in the urban regions and thinning as the population thins. And running beside thes... ... of Urseren will be a scattered sum- mer town. One figures one of the more urban highways, one of those along which the light railways of the second o... ...raid. We should come out into this great main roadway—this roadway like an urban avenue—and look up it and down, hesitating whether to go along the va... ..., just as he never thought of a State that was not primarily organised for warfare hand to hand. Political and moral inventions he saw enough of and t...

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...PTER VIII VIII VIII VIII VIII THE SUB THE SUB THE SUB THE SUB THE SUBURBAN URBAN URBAN URBAN URBAN VILL VILL VILL VILL VILLA A A A A DONATELLO, while ... ...I am afraid,” observed Kenyon. “All that rich sculpture of Trajan’s bloody warfare, twining from the base of the pillar to its capital, may be but an ...

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...his inside, he must, like any other soldier, in any other stirring, deadly warfare, push on at his best pace un- til he touch the goal. “A peerage or ... ...fancies, will not be led far by terror of the Provost Marshal. Even German warfare, in addition to maps and telegraphs, is not above employing the Wac... ...playing with pieces of cork on his own dining-table, invented modern naval warfare. There was that portrait of Neil Gow, to sit for which the old fidd... ...Opera por- tico, and in the Rue Drouot at the Figaro office, a new sort of urban star now shines out nightly, horrible, unearthly, obnoxious to the hu...

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... and were the red guards driving all before them? At any time the flood of warfare might pour into this silent quarter of the city and seize upon him ... ...y to Graham. It was no tumultuous revolt had occurred that night, no equal warfare, but a splendidly organised coup d’etat. Ostrog’s grasp of details ... ...e franchises had been broadened until it included masses of ignorant men, “urban myriads,” who went in their featureless thousands to vote together. A... ...id perfec- tion had been withheld; these inventions had never been used in warfare. The last great international struggle had occurred before the usur... ...me unprovided with ammunition; never was wilder fir- ing in the history of warfare. It was a battle of amateurs, a hideous experimental warfare, armed... ... stages, to learn there when retreat was hopeless the ancient mysteries of warfare. And overhead save for a few sharpshooters upon the roof spaces and...

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...I could see that we were being hemmed in; that the great net of that giant Warfare had us in its toils. Many times we had seen the lev- ies that had c... ... was enclosed on either side by a wall breast high. This gave a singularly urban quality to this secluded place, a quality that was greatly enhanced b... ... down that spade and come off the grass!” The last order, grotesque in its urban familiarity, produced a gust of anger. “I’ll hurt you,” he said, sobb...

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...PTER VIII VIII VIII VIII VIII THE SUB THE SUB THE SUB THE SUB THE SUBURBAN URBAN URBAN URBAN URBAN VILL VILL VILL VILL VILLA A A A A DONATELLO, while ... ...I am afraid,” observed Kenyon. “All that rich sculpture of Trajan’s bloody warfare, twining from the base of the pillar to its capital, may be but an ... ...cklime, which caused much effusion of tears from suffering eyes, a gentler warfare of flowers was carried on, principally between knights and ladies. ...

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...pri- vate proprietors; let alone the special privileges and property of an urban district board, nine parish councils, a county council, two gasworks,... ...p out of the towns”— for by that time they were forbidden all boroughs and urban districts, “Doing nothing’s just wicked. Can’t we find out something ... ...him. He saw the oblong space to its full extent, with the great engines of warfare ranged ready to hand. Beyond, and at a higher level, the house of t...

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...perience, the crazy notion of a rural aristocracy flow- ing apart from the urban aristocracy, and standing on a dif- ferent level of culture as to int... ...ordinary host of petty maladies which, by way of antithesis to the capital warfare of dangerous complaints, might be called the guerilla nosology; inf... ...of Liverpool, illustrating all the races of men,—and was in society a most urbane and pleasant companion. On my mother’s suggestion, he had been summo... ...m of luxury suddenly precipitated himself upon the hardships of Peninsular warfare? Which of us forgets the adventurous Lee of Lime, whom a princely e... ...een the Ionian and Egean seas. T o illustrate their condition of perpetual warfare, Mr. Gordon mentions that there were very lately individuals who ha... ... be- yond all precedent. And latterly, when the vast extension of European warfare had created first-rate markets for grain, selecting, of course, tho... ...x- ations, had entered professedly as a point of policy into the system of warfare which now swept over Germany in full career, threatening soon to co...

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...t choice in all my walks with my mother, and its rapid swamping by the new urban growth made it indicative of all the other things that had happened j... ...was a district of very much the same character, but it was more completely urbanised and nearer to the centre of things; there were the same unfinishe... ...e broad vision of life. 48 The New Machiavelli It was in that phase of an urban youth’s development, the phase of the cheap cigarette, that this thin... ...litician before I was fifteen. I was also intensely interested in mod- ern warfare. I read the morning papers in the Reading Room during the midday re... ...together. We confessed shyly to one another a common secret vice, “Phantom warfare.” When we walked alone, especially in the country, we had both deve... ... mind. I would sit on the Liberal benches and watch him, and listen to his urbane voice, fasci- nated by him. Did he really care? Did anything matter ...

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...t the tangle of struggling building enterprise that constituted the rising urban district of Easewood. Johnson was off duty that morning, and devoted ... ...ld have been amply distracted from any mortuary broodings, even if a wordy warfare about the education of the modern young woman had not sprung up bet...

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...ux, which was applied to the in- habitants of Angers, who excelled in such urban sarcasms. The ancient mansions of the old town of Saumur are at the t... ...tried to obtain the rich heiress for his nephew the president. This secret warfare between the Cruchots and des Grassins, the prize thereof being the ...

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...r after the fashion of the West End than the City, and affected a cultured urbanity that somehow disconcerted and always annoyed Ann Veronica’s father... ...aid Miss Stanley, with dignity, and turned doorward with features in civil warfare. “Better state of mind,” she gasped… . Ann Veronica stood in the tw... ...r stagnant or dreaming along in the wake of fussy tugs; and above circled, urbanely voracious, the Lon- don seagulls. She had never been there before ... ...t in England they shaped as commercialism and competition, silk hats, sub- urban morals, the sweating system, and the subjection of women. So far the ...

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...Glooms which otherwhere appal, Sounded: here, their worths exchanged 199 Urban joins with pastoral: Little lost, save what may drop Husk-like, and t... ...th foam for fruit, And the fair heaven reflecting inner peace On righteous warfare, that asks not to cease. Forth of such passage through black fire w... ...tles lost or won, Reveals the scheme to animate his race: How that it is a warfare but begun; Unending; with no Power to interpose; No prayer, save fo...

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...tress of being witty was not to count against him in the commercio-medical warfare. “There’s some people in town that say the doc is a fair to middlin... ...ed at her, she moved nearer to Kennicott’s arm. The clerk was flippant and urban. He was a superior per- son, used to this tumult. Was he laughing at ... ...tting them with a pocket-knife and despising a nail-file as effeminate and urban. That they were invariably clean, that his were the scoured fingers o... ...tative as a glass diamond. She was the more rustic in her effort to appear urban. She wore a severe high-collared blouse with a row of small black but...

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...ibited with due consideration. But there is a way some men have, rural and urban alike, for which the mind is more responsible than flesh and sinew: it... ...et not to fetter it. You are my antagonist, with this difference from real warfare, that I shall miss you every time by one hair’s breadth, or perhaps...

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...I could see that we were being hemmed in; that the great net of that giant Warfare had us in its toils. Many times we had seen the lev- ies that had c... ... was enclosed on either side by a wall breast high. This gave a singularly urban quality to this secluded place, a quality that was greatly enhanced b... ...down that spade, and come off the grass!” The last order, grotesque in its urban familiarity, produced a gust of anger. “I’ll hurt you,” he said, sobb...

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...oints of interest about her. For this reason he smiled on her with so much urbanity, and asked her how she did, so often, in the course of her visits ... ...n his eye, emboldened 244 Dombey & Son and incited by Mr Carker’s smiling urbanity , that he felt him- self in as fair a condition to put the questio... ...hat Mrs Skewton, in spite of her ecstasies, and Mr Carker, in spite of his urban- ity, were both intent on watching Mr Dombey and Edith. With all thei... ...rawn from the presumptuous maniac up- stairs, who salutes him with so much urbanity, drops a curt- 447 Charles Dickens sey , and informs him that she... ...ut nothing could have made it more unhappy, than the wilful and determined warfare of such elements. His pride was set upon maintaining his magnificen... ... Blimber had previously called upon all the parents, 842 Dombey & Son and urbanely explained), the young gentlemen cheered; and Mr T ozer, on behalf ...

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...................................................... 72 THE COMMON SENSE OF WARFARE ...................................................................... ...d. So long as one had to consider the navigable balloon the aerial side of warfare remained unimportant. A Zeppelin is little good for any purpose but... ...e humbler level. I do not think numbers are going to matter so much in the warfare of the future, and that when organised 10 An Englishman Looks at t... ...am here suggesting. It gives 33 H. G . Wells them a certain immunity from warfare, a penny post, an occasional spectacular coronation, a few knightho... ...ially dangerous power, and, on the other, labour hordes, for the most part urban, without any property or outlook except con- tinuous toil and anxiety... ...f farm work is seasonal, and that a migration to and fro between rural and urban conditions would be entirely practicable in a largely planned communi... ... vast amount of hand operations, invigorat- ing and even attractive to the urban population Given short hours, good pay, and all the jolly amusement i... ...ldom, we are all too apt to make him the type of all officials, and not an urban district coun- cil can get into a dispute about its electric light wi... ...forth, then a new industrial class of employees in the manufactur- ing and urban districts, and a peasant population rooted to the land. There are, of...

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...nly more temperate and less explosive in the grosser indulgences, but more urbane altogether. The drunken people are also the “uncivil” peoples and th... ...for it; it is best to take it often into the open air, and for this, under urban or suburban conditions at any rate, a perambulator is almost necessar... ...ppled and vitality and cour- age lowered. Moreover, defective as are these urban artisans, they are, after all, much more “picked” than the youth of t... ... think there is much to choose between the “heredity” of the rural and the urban strain. It is nonsense to pretend that we shall get the fine flower o... ...be possible to level up the minimum standard of all tenements in towns and urban districts at any rate to the possession of a properly equipped bathro... ...mmands, but they will naturally exercise the same authoritative command in warfare that a doctor does in a sick-room. or for the naval and mercantile ...

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...e had been. Neither proud was Kate, nor sycophantishly and falsely humble. Urban VIII. it was that then filled the chair of St. Peter. He did not negl... ...a was a brave man, as respected all bodily enemies or the dangers of human warfare, but was as sensitive and timid as the most superstitious of old wo... ...ble, with an enemy so little disposed to observe the us- ages of civilized warfare. The period of his anxiety was not long: on the fifth day of the si... ...d, the hos- tility of both sides had assumed the appearance much more of a warfare amongst wild beasts than amongst creatures ac- knowledging the rest... ...aneous Papers it suggests to a very common error. In some period of Syrian warfare, a large military detach- ment was entering at some point of Syria ... ...tional forces, then the result will be to have established an interminable warfare of a mixed character, private and public, civil and foreign, in- fe...

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...l as of Bin Ladin’s smaller, adjacent camp. 152 Because this was not in an urban area, mis- siles launched against it would have less risk of causing ... ...sity with a degree in architectural engineering in 1990, Atta worked as an urban planner in Cairo for a couple of years. In the fall of 1991, he asked... ...haldan camp in Afghanistan, where he learned the fundamentals of guerrilla warfare. He and his younger brother had been recruited by Abu Hoshar into a... ...- agement Agency (FEMA) was called and asked to send at least five federal Urban Search and Rescue Teams (such teams are located throughout the United... ...n- structive efforts to direct assistance and coordinate action. Coalition warfare also requires coalition policies on what to do with enemy captives.... ...nment of radio spectrum for public safety purposes. Furthermore, high-risk urban areas such as New York City and Washington, D.C., should establish si... ...e of national intelligence systems (satellites in particular) in precision warfare. Since that war, the department has appropriately drawn these agenc... ... who considered it essential for waging terrorist operations and guerrilla warfare in the jihad against the Soviets. For more on the origins of the En... ...hat airport had also been open for more than five hours. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Airport Board, Blue Grass Airport response to Commission quest...

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...now and then indulged her brisk impulses, and breathed rural air in a sub- urban walk, or ocean breezes along the shore,—had occa- sionally obeyed the... ...elf in a faded shawl, which had been her defensive armor in a forty years’ warfare against the east wind. A characteristic sound, however,— neither a ...

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...ine, begun and car- ried on by Mr. Edward Cave, under the name of Sylvanus Urban, had attracted the notice and esteem of Johnson, in an eminent degree... ...me could never have reached the authour of The Rambler, the politeness and urbanity may be opposed to some of the stories which have been lately circu... ...ons, is truely edifying. No saint, however, in the course of his religious warfare, was more sensible of the un- happy failure of pious resolves, than...