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We can offer no greater argument of Cadillac superiority than the fact that in four years the Cadillac Motor Car Company has grown from a small beginning to the largest automobile manufacturing establishment in the world .
We can offer no greater argument of Cadillac superiority than the fact that in four years the Cadillac Motor Car Company has grown from a small beginning to the largest automobile manufacturing establishment in the world .
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... it may be asserted that San Francisco harbor is the most scientifically and competently protected harbor on the Atlantic or Pacific seaboard . Note . The author has to acknowledge the acquirement of important facts and figures from ...
... it may be asserted that San Francisco harbor is the most scientifically and competently protected harbor on the Atlantic or Pacific seaboard . Note . The author has to acknowledge the acquirement of important facts and figures from ...
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The fact that one of his chums in boyhood days , who had grown up with him and lived his life in the streets was now one of the " rough riders " was beyond his comprehension . After much explaining and reiterations , Mickey finally ...
The fact that one of his chums in boyhood days , who had grown up with him and lived his life in the streets was now one of the " rough riders " was beyond his comprehension . After much explaining and reiterations , Mickey finally ...
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In fact , our bodies were so hard that a blow from a bar of iron would bend it , but leave our bodies unhurt . With your knives you could no more cut our flesh than you could cut yonder rock . " Another advantage we had over you people ...
In fact , our bodies were so hard that a blow from a bar of iron would bend it , but leave our bodies unhurt . With your knives you could no more cut our flesh than you could cut yonder rock . " Another advantage we had over you people ...
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In fact , you will have to consult an antiquary who makes the Orient his specialty if you really care to learn whether that arabesque pattern of manyhued silk , which is sewn diagonally across the blouse of yonder Celestial belle ...
In fact , you will have to consult an antiquary who makes the Orient his specialty if you really care to learn whether that arabesque pattern of manyhued silk , which is sewn diagonally across the blouse of yonder Celestial belle ...
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Page 216 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
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