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What would be the reader's surprise , when on the way to his office in the morning , should he chance to see a woman standing at a switch in the center of traffic and directing a continuous line of electric cars to their different ...
What would be the reader's surprise , when on the way to his office in the morning , should he chance to see a woman standing at a switch in the center of traffic and directing a continuous line of electric cars to their different ...
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All it requires is a strong pair of arms , and if the back will stand a day's labor that starts at 4 a . m . and ends at 6 p . m , the applicant is then acceptable to the municipality . The sweepers receive the same pay as the ...
All it requires is a strong pair of arms , and if the back will stand a day's labor that starts at 4 a . m . and ends at 6 p . m , the applicant is then acceptable to the municipality . The sweepers receive the same pay as the ...
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Before buying his his ticket he feasted his eyes upon the highly colored pictures of blue clad troopers standing on galloping horses . Not a detail escaped his greedy eyes . He saw By Fred Ferdinand Moore.
Before buying his his ticket he feasted his eyes upon the highly colored pictures of blue clad troopers standing on galloping horses . Not a detail escaped his greedy eyes . He saw By Fred Ferdinand Moore.
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She would stand like a statue , looking westward with her hands shading her eyes and sigh would follow sigh . " Over there - my home - my people , " she would sometimes say , but would turn to her work and plod on apparently satisfied .
She would stand like a statue , looking westward with her hands shading her eyes and sigh would follow sigh . " Over there - my home - my people , " she would sometimes say , but would turn to her work and plod on apparently satisfied .
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I tried to persuade her not to go , but felt that she could not stand their filth and squalor , and that she would . soon return to me . So she went to the mountains , to her people and her beloved acorn soup .
I tried to persuade her not to go , but felt that she could not stand their filth and squalor , and that she would . soon return to me . So she went to the mountains , to her people and her beloved acorn soup .
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