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"Well, now that we've sweated the old girl through the crisis," asserted Roger, "how's about us concentrating on our vacation?" "Great," agreed Tom. "This is your party, Astro. Lead the way." The three cadets left the spaceport in a jet cab and rode happily into the city of Venusport.
When the Dutch established their influence in these seas, and relieved the native princes from their Portuguese oppressors, they saw that the easiest way to repay themselves would be to get this spice trade into their own hands. For this purpose they adopted the wise principle of concentrating the culture of these valuable products in those spots only of which they could have complete control.
His words created some alarm in the allied countries, which was deepened when it became known that Greece was concentrating 200,000 men in and around Saloniki. The question now arose, Should the Allies submit quietly while Greece carried out this publicly declared intention, or should they persuade her to a change of opinion by the application of armed force?
She was very quiet indeed when he at length recollected himself and roused from his reverie. He looked up to find her resting her warm, rose-leaf colored cheek on her hand, and concentrating all her attention upon the fire again.
Then last of all the record of Franklin's life, of the steady rise of the ill-treated printer's devil to knowledge and power filled him with an urging and concentrating ambition, and set his thoughts, endowed with a new heat and nimbleness, to the practical unravelling of a practical case. They reached home again early on a May day.
To this I would reply: "Such procedure always involves the danger of concentrating the disease poisons in vital parts and organs, thus laying the foundation for chronic destructive diseases."
On learning that Vassilyev had taken his degree in natural science, and was now studying law, the doctor pondered. "He wrote a first-rate piece of original work last year,..." said the medical student. "I beg your pardon, but don't interrupt me; you prevent me from concentrating," said the doctor, and he smiled on one side of his face. "Though, of course, that does enter into the diagnosis.
How can such expensive things be made, for a price that would allow so many to be used?" "Yes, these concentrating mirrors and burning glasses combined, are the product of the inventive genius and skillful work of our people.
Instantly disregarding Gretry's entreaties as to caution Jadwin had brought the vast bulk of his entire fortune to bear, in the manner of a general concentrating his heavy artillery, and crushed the opposition with appalling swiftness. He issued from the grapple triumphantly, and it was not till long afterward that Laura knew how near, for a few hours, he had been to defeat.
The introduction of such a system would necessarily have effects far wider than the mere modification of the law of tenure; it might be regarded as a means of consolidating and concentrating the whole machinery of government; legislation, taxation, judicature, and military defence were all capable of being organized on the feudal principle, and might have been so had the moral and political results been in harmony with the legal.
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