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Problem PlanetQuibblers may shove dictionaries in my face till the end of the universe and I will always maintain that almost anything you can name is a matter of good luck or bad. Every great man owes his success to luck of some sort....

Az élet értelme és értékeAz let rtelme s rtke felli krds ppensggel nem magtl rtetd: olyan idkben tmad fel, a mikor az egyes ember kezd zavarba jnni a krnyezete ltal nyujtott lettartalom fell s ez a ktsg azt jelenti, hogy a hagyomnyos sszefggsek nem...

A Man-Sized PetMagpie Simpkins, six feet two, slender to the point of emaciation, with the face of a scholar above his walrus-like mustache, sat there peering at his cards through the only pair of glasses on Sleeping Creek. Magpie had been to Missoula a...

Cliquot: A Racing Story of Ideal Beauty News Agents and Booksellers will be supplied with any of the above books, very low rates, assorted, as they may wish them, to make up a dozen, hundred, five hundred, or thousand, by the publishers, T. B....

Finsk bilderbok - 10 teckningar Vet mamma, Bravo r rysligt qvicker; Han springer, s det i foten sticker! Nog skulle han f p banan priset, Om han ej stundom behfde riset. Frsk att basa hans herre d; Det tror jag Bravo skall bst frst....

The Boy's King Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round TableIn this edition of Mr. Lanier's classic "Boy's King Arthur" omission has been made of some minor passages and introductory matterall the greater tales, those of...

The World of ChanceFrom the club where the farewell dinner was given him, Ray went to the depot of the East & West Railroad with a friend of his own age, and they walked up and down the platform talking of their lives and...

The magic of jewels and charms Jewels, gems, stones, superstitions and astrological lore are all so interwoven in history that to treat of either of them alone would mean to break the chain of association linking them one with the other. Beauty of color...

Colville of the Guards, Volume 3 (of 3) I. The "Flying Foam" II. Ellinor III. The Gale IV. Alone! V. In the Bala Hissar VI. The Fort of Mahmoud Shah VII. The Fugitive VIII. The Ghilzie IX. A New Snare X. The House by...

Colville of the Guards, Volume 2 (of 3) I. The Queen's Shilling II. In London III. No. 60, Park Lane IV. 'So Near and Yet So Far!' V. 'Some Day.' VI. Jack Shows His Teeth VII. The Daughter of Nox VIII. Mrs. Deroubigne IX....

Colville of the Guards, Volume 1 (of 3) I. Birkwoodbrae II. Mary's Adventure III. The Introduction IV. Robert Wodrow V. The Dunkeld Family VI. The Visit VII. Dreams and Doubts VIII. A Truce IX. Colville's Warning X. A Garden-Party at Craigmhor XI. In the...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 46, Vol. I, November 15, 1884Deer-stalking has for many a long year been looked upon as the king of sports; and in Scotland, a large area of land has from an early period...

Vándorlásaim és élményeim PersiábanKzpzsiai utazsom leirsa kzzttelekor azt igrm a hazai olvasnak, hogy ksbben, ha vndorbotomat valami nyugalmas hajlk szgletbe tmaszthatom, majd akkor tbb vi kborlsom trtnett egsz terjedelmben akarom elmondani, a mivel klnsen Kzpzsia hatrorszgai s az irodalmunkban hinyz keleti szomszdorszgok ismertetsre czloztam....

We Were There at the Normandy InvasionTOWARD sunset on the first day of June, a small black car rattled past a crossroads sign in a tiny village in northwestern France. The sign pointed to the near-by town of Sainte Mre glise, about two miles...

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 10 - The OpinionatorTHOSE who read no books but new ones have this much to say for themselves in mitigation of censure: they do not read all the new ones. They can not; with the utmost diligence...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 45, Vol. I, November 8, 1884The greatest physical convulsion of recent times occurred on the morning of the 27th of August last year, the scene of the catastrophe being a small island in...

A Matter of EthicsFader's Fadeless Formulae had offered him a position, not a job, to take charge of its research department, at ten thousand a year, twice what he was paid at Faderfield Junior College to teach chemistry. All this was in the letter....

3½ Monate Fabrik-ArbeiterinAls eifrige Kmpferin fr unser gutes Recht habe ich vielfach Gelegenheit gehabt zu sehen, da fast alle deutschen Frauen unter den Kmpferinnen, auch die tchtigsten, die Kirche am Turm anfangen zu bauen, d.h., sie bercksichtigen bei ihrem Streben immer nur das Frauenstudium...

The Voyage of Vanishing MenOther men before him had gone out into the far, dark places. Three previous expeditions had gone out and vanished completely. Then the Venture IV went out and out and out countless miles and light-years and whatever else it isand...

Moonlight and RobotsThad Morgan looked around his little room. The two deactivated robots and the framework that suspended the limp suit hardly left room for him to move around. At the moment he felt mildly disgusted with this whole convention. He asked himself why...