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Page 42 - Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Page 189 - The Members of the League undertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all Members of the League. In case of any such aggression or in case of any threat or danger of such aggression the Council shall advise upon the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled.
Page 71 - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country...
Page 88 - In the spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast; In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Page 23 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.
Page 2 - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write : a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Page 87 - ... eminent domain The right of a government to take private property for public use.
Page 185 - ... Truman, and Lyndon Baines Johnson. Only one president, Grover Cleveland, was elected to two discontinuous terms of office and thus was both the twenty-second and the twenty-fourth president of the United States. Several outstanding presidents have been elected to two four-year terms or more. They were: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Ask Me Another!: The Question Book Ask Me Another!: The Question Book, Justin Spafford |
| Compiled by | Justin Spafford, Lucien Esty |
| Publisher | Viking Press, 1927 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | May 21, 2007 |
| Length | 192 pages |
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