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A day at Happy Hollow School by Lettie Cook Van Derveer

There's no doubt that for many people, life is simply too overwhelming,Everyone is given 24 hours in a day, but everything you do take time.To fit it all in, it's imperative to prioritize, organize and delegate, we live in a hectic and complex world. It's natural to want to get a lot done and to...

TEACH YOURSELF MIND-POWERED ZERO-DIET WEIGHT LOSS (the mental magic series)

The young man sitting opposite to him smiled. “At least, Excellency, let me hear it. May not the man before whom the danger will lie be the best judge of whether he can undertake it. As to the delicacy involved——”

A hatvanas évek vége felé a «fiatal óriások» egy kis csoportja a fürdő-utczai Kávé-forrásban tanyázik. Bohó álmokat álmodoznak, hirnévről, dicsőségről, irodalomról, költészetről beszélgetnek, olvasmányaikon éldelegve maguk próbálják megrebbenteni a szárnyaikat...

There is a great difficulty in writing of the women of the first ten years of the twentieth century. This is to be the Woman’s Century. In it she is to awake from her long sleep and come into her kingdom; but when I look about me I find myself surrounded by the most terribly contradictory facts...

Hard-worked hansoms and goblin-eyed motor-cars spun along the smooth asphalt; jeweled women and carefully attired men streamed in at the light-flooded lobbies of the theatres. Electric cars loaded with pleasure seekers flashed clanging up and down.

Jack Dacre, the younger of the Bungalow Boys, spoke, as his head emerged from the engine room hatchway of the sixty-foot, motor-driven craft, Sea Ranger.

People who have any time to kill are usually filled with a deep and intense desire to kill it in some spot far removed from their usual haunts.

It has not been possible, for lack of space, always to tell the old stories in the original words, which are, in almost all cases, the best. If any readers of this book can get a sight of two big volumes called “Drake and the Tudor Navy,” by Julian Corbett, they may consider themselves...