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effect negative control of non
By a sparing but well considered liaison with censorship, psychological warfare can effect negative control of non-governmental materials, and can prevent the most overt forms of enemy propaganda from circulating on the home front.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

either Native cavalry or Native
First, that the lengthy, exposed frontier of Northern India, with the fierce elements of internal disquiet within it, rendered any substantial reduction of either Native cavalry or Native infantry in Bengal impossible.
— from Rulers of India: The Earl of Mayo by William Wilson Hunter

each nucleus containing one nucleolus
Four spermatid nuclei in one cell, each nucleus containing one nucleolus.
— from Studies in Spermatogenesis (Part 1 of 2) by N. M. (Nettie Maria) Stevens

either not characteristic or not
Dismissing therefore these two arrangements as either not characteristic or not laudably characteristic, we shall make a brief exposition of the others.
— from The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Thomas De Quincey

extreme northeast corner of New
It was in the extreme northeast corner of New Hampshire.
— from Saxe Holm's Stories First Series by Helen Hunt Jackson

expect neither credit of nor
I therefore expect neither credit of, nor countenance from thee, for this narration of thy kinsman's life.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

exhibited no consciousness of needing
Although his health, moreover, was delicate and he looked worn and feeble, he exhibited no consciousness of needing support, declining to reconstruct his Cabinet that abler men might lend the assistance his own lack of energy demanded.
— from A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 by De Alva Stanwood Alexander

et nostris cupiant ornari numina
merear divino pollice carpi et nostris cupiant ornari numina sertis.”
— from Claudian, volume 2 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

entire northern coasts of North
Strange as it may now seem, a century since the entire northern coasts of North America were wholly unknown, save at two isolated and widely separated points—the mouth of the Coppermine and the delta of the Mackenzie.
— from True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by A. W. (Adolphus Washington) Greely


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