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but also that the leading Eastern States

The result is, and this is what is hardest for the foreigner to understand, that the higher institutions of learning which are 401 subsidized by the state stand for a grade of culture inferior to that of the private institutions, and that not only the leading universities, like Harvard, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Chicago, Cornell, and Stanford, carry on their work without the help of the state, but also that the leading Eastern States pay out much less for higher instruction than do the Western.
— from The Americans by Hugo Münsterberg

brief address to the London Ethnological Society

Professor Huxley called attention to this subject in a brief address to the London Ethnological Society in 1869.
— from Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology by John D. (John Denison) Baldwin

bluff and then the long easy slope

They reached the top of the bluff and then the long, easy slope, right beside the speedway, spread, 150 spotless, before them.
— from The Girls of Central High on the Stage; Or, The Play That Took The Prize by Gertrude W. Morrison

by assimilating them to local English surnames

This made the Irish feel ashamed of all such names as were difficult of pronunciation to English organs, and they were thus led to change them by degrees, either by translating them into what they conceived to be their meanings in English, by assimilating them to local English surnames of respectable families, or by paring them in such a manner as to make them easy of pronunciation to English organs.
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 50, June 12, 1841 by Various

be added to the large economic social

If this undertaking is to succeed, there must be added to the large economic, social, and strategic resources of the country the element of a free spirit and an enlightened conscience.
— from Prowling about Panama by George A. (George Amos) Miller

by adding to this last experience so

It is by adding to this last experience, so to speak, that we get the others.
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

been agreed that the little Englishman should

It had been agreed that the little Englishman should be put ashore at some obscure French port, the brig being bound now for L’Orient.
— from With the Flag in the Channel; or, The Adventures of Captain Gustavus Conyngham by James Barnes

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