Papers 1921-1930 of total 5240 found.
Category: /Literature
…. Scientists still have much to learn about tornados, but many meteorologists think they know why they occur in North America. The cool, dry air from the Rocky Mountains mixes with the warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico. Strong winds reach a height of 15,000…
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…competitors to pay him $1 per year to allow them to call their games bingo as well. At the height of its popularity during the Great Depression of the 1930s, a variant was played in motion-picture theatres, with one night in the week designated bank night, when…
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Category: /History
…. The Incas also believed that there was a heaven, a hell, and a resurrection of the body after death. At its height, the Inca civilization crashed into the European expansion. In 1521, Herman Cortés conquered the Aztecs; this conquest inspired…
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Category: /Literature
…reach new heights, so the people believed them. An of course more money was being spent on stocks. Now people were buying stocks "on margin", which meant that they paid a half or third of the value, and would pay the rest later. Stockholders expected to sell…
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Category: /Literature
…of chimneys, wanting half their height; temporary wooden houses and enclosures, in the most unlikely situations; carcasses of ragged tenements, and fragments of unfinished walls and arches and piles of scaffolding, and wildernesses of bricks, and giant forms…
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Category: /Literature/Poetry
…for ways to guide your organization to new heights. Collaborate with others wanting success for the organization. And when things go wrong, they will sooner or later, do not blame others. Analyze the situation, take corrective action, and move on to the next…
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…the height of social problems in the area. This makes the novel a primary source as she describes conditions in a purposely accurate way, her intention being to inform the ignorant middle and upper classes of the grave hardships felt by working class people…
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Category: /Literature
…-up to look good. She was medium height, very thin, pale with the most stunning crystal blue eyes I had ever seen, and long silky dark brown hair that I just wanted to run my fingers through so badly. On that day, I noticed, she wore ripped jeans, a tight…
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…completed, carrying the height of the construction to 48 meters. The accomplished technician mitigated, though still not level to the eye, the effect of the inclination by raising up one side of the galleries on the upper floors, partially correcting the lean…
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…, these traveling people passed through the lands of the Persians and Turks and came into the south of Europe in the height of the Middle Ages. Everywhere along the country roads people regarded these wandering minstrels and fortune-telling rovers as less than human…
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