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Your 1952 Champion Owner's GuideYou no doubt have many reasons for your choice of this car. All of them, we are sure, are good reasons. Accept our congratulations and thanks on your purchase of a fine motor car. Speaking of reasons, we have three...

Notes in Japan E had left Hong-Kong enveloped in its usual spring fog, and for five long, weary days had steamed across the China Sea in regular monsoon weather, gray and wet and miserable, but during the fifth some rocky islands, outlying sentinels of...

The Rare Earths: Their Occurrence, Chemistry, and TechnologyThe mysterious group of substances to which have been given the title of rare earths has long been the subject of my special study, and no one knows better the magnitude of the difficulties encountered in the...

Le Paradis PerduSi je n'avais voulu donner qu'une traduction lgante du Paradis perdu, on m'accordera peut-tre assez de connaissance de l'art pour qu'il ne m'et pas t impossible d'atteindre la hauteur d'une traduction de cette nature; mais c'est une traduction littrale dans toute la...

Sweet Clover: Harvesting and Thrashing the Seed CropSWEET CLOVER should be cut for seed when three-fourths of the seed pods have turned dark brown to black. At this time some flowers and many immature pods will be found on the plants, but the field...

Sketches and CartoonsTHIS is the third book in the regular series of Mr. Gibsons published drawings, the first one being entitled Drawings by C. D. Gibson, the second, Pictures of People. Each book contains eighty-four of Mr. Gibsons best cartoons, and all are uniform...

Yodogima: In Feudalistic JapanJapan lay sweltering with uncertainty. Four centuries of unbridled warfare had reduced her once sturdy, centralized government to little more than a revered impotency; the country had become the property or the booty of its daimyosthose knights-errant, the pride of a...

Essay on the Theory of the EarthThe attention of naturalists was early directed to the investigation of the fossil organic remains so generally and abundantly distributed throughout the strata of which the crust of the Earth is composed. It is not, as some writers...

Tommy Remington's BattleLessons were ended for the day, and an unwonted noise and bustle filled the little school-house as the children caught up their books and hats, eager to breathe again the fresh air with the keen scent of the woods in it, to...

PoveștiUnii ziceau, c ar fi fr de margini, iar alii spuneau, c in minte de a fi auzit din btrni, c sar fi btut odinioar mpratul cu vecinii si, din care unii erau i mai mari, i mai puternici, ear alii mai mici i...

And the Gods LaughedYou know how it is when you're with a work crew on one of the asteroids. You're there, stuck for the month you signed up for, with four other guys and nothing to do but talk. Space on the little tugs...

The Wireless Operator—With the U. S. Coast GuardAmong all the various arms of government in our nation, no arm is at once less known or more worthy of renown than the Coast Guard. Like the knights of the Table Round, this company of gallant...

History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin, Vol. 8 (of 8)With this volume we complete the publication of the work of M. Merle d'Aubign on the history of the Reformation. The ten volumes published by the author himself and the...

The Four SeasonsThe songs in this story have been translated into English verse by my friend Mr. Osman Edwards, who has successfully accomplished the difficult task of retaining not only the rhymes, but also the lilting rhythm of the originals. Lo, nowadays the earth...

CattleFour Alberta ranches are the scene of this story. Of these, three were quarter sections of land in Yankee Valley, and the fourth the vast Bar Q, whose two hundred thousand rich acres of grain, hay and grazing lands stretched from the prairie into...

The Spider, and Other TalesTheir branches were almost as long as those of the bushes. And they were as pretentious as though they really were bushes and as though they did not wither in the autumn and have[4] to start all over again with...

Army and Navy Uniforms and Insignia - How to Know Rank, Corps and Service in the Military and Naval Forces of the United States and Foreign CountriesHow to know Rank, Corps and Service in the Military and Naval Forces of the United States and...

Submarine Warfare, Past, Present, and FutureThe natural attitude of the Naval mind towards submarines is the same now as that expressed by Lord St. Vincent when Fulton invented the notorious catamaran expedition. Fulton had been trying some experiments before Pitt, who favoured the project,...

The White Kami: A NovelPossessed of unusual strength and intensity. His characters are all sharply individualized and fit competently into the picture. They are interesting people and alive to the point of giddiness. Mr. Jewell has touched them with the fresh, electric buoyancy that...

Siltalan pehtoriPollehan oli aina ollut hiukan huikenteleva excentrinen, jos niin tahdomme sanoa. Mutta sehn oli, niin sanoaksemme, kuulunut asiaan. Minks luonnolleen tekee, ja luonnottomalta olisi tuntunutkin, jos Polle olisi ollut tavallisten, rauhallisten, vakavain tilallisten kaltainen, seikkailtuaan nuoruutensa pivt, oikeammin sanoen, siihen asti kun hn...