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What possible object can there be in keeping a fleet meandering about the ocean
, wearing out its personnel and its propelling machinery , only to find when the
psychological moment comes it is short of fuel and must return to harbour - to
coal ...
What possible object can there be in keeping a fleet meandering about the ocean
, wearing out its personnel and its propelling machinery , only to find when the
psychological moment comes it is short of fuel and must return to harbour - to
coal ...
Page 177
... thing for an opposing party to do is to make a case against that in power and as
strongly and highly coloured as possible , while the natural thing for the party in
power to do is to minimise the facts and put as good a face on it as possible .
... thing for an opposing party to do is to make a case against that in power and as
strongly and highly coloured as possible , while the natural thing for the party in
power to do is to minimise the facts and put as good a face on it as possible .
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Is it not possible so to use each form of transport , both for passengers and goods
, that each carries just that for which it is best adapted , leaving the rest to the
others ? As things are to - day it is not possible . Something has been done and is
...
Is it not possible so to use each form of transport , both for passengers and goods
, that each carries just that for which it is best adapted , leaving the rest to the
others ? As things are to - day it is not possible . Something has been done and is
...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, 257. köide |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1931 |
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