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He had a horrible vision of things disastrously muffled; of Lady Frensham and her Morning Post friends first garrulously and maliciously "patriotic," screaming her way with incalculable mischiefs through the storm, and finally discovering that the Germans were the real aristocrats and organising our national capitulation on that understanding.
"Did you ever hear of such a thing as a railroad president organising a company to sell supplies to his own road?" The Major smiled grimly. "Yes, I have heard of it," he said. "Is it common?" asked Montague. "Not so common as you might suppose," answered the other. "A railroad president is commonly not an important enough man to be permitted to do it.
In this Teter helped them greatly, and Frank was very active too, because big Rod Graham, whom he disliked none the less, though Bert had thrashed him so soundly, always headed the hoisting party, and Frank looked forward with keen delight to balking this tormenting bully by means of the anti-hoisting party they were now organising. Of course, the movement could not be kept a secret.
The Albanians do not attack large parties, but rather stragglers, as larger numbers have an unpleasant habit of organising themselves into avenging bands to repay the visit with interest. Not a soul was to be seen anywhere, not a living being of any description. In a shower of pelting rain we took possession of the largest hut.
Fervent and widespread devotion is traceable in the Church's early days, but the organising of our Lady's feasts was a work of some time and difficulty. A great difficulty was the fear of blasphemy from pagans, and of error amongst pagan converts, so trained in myths and genealogies of the gods.
So the Organising Activity which we see must be working at the back of things, keeping all the separate individuals together in a connected whole, not only preserves the strictest order among them, but grants them freedom, stimulates emulation among them, inspires them to reach upward and to look into and provide for the future. Such an Activity is no mere mechanical activity.
They also consulted people of acknowledged talent, but belonging to no council nor to any assembly. Among these was M. Dubucq, formerly intendant of the marine and of the colonies. He answered laconically in one phrase: "Prevent disorder from organising itself."
Sometimes there was no light in her room. That meant she was downstairs gossiping with the landlady." "She might have been out with Tom?" "No, sir; I knew Tom was on the platform somewhere or other. He was working up to all hours organising the eight hours' working movement." "A very good reason for relaxing his sweethearting." "It was. He never went to Stepney Green on a week night."
In the former case, instead of endeavouring to make the process of language construction interesting in itself, we divert the child's attention from the acquiring and organising of the system of language forms to the premature acquirement of the content of language.
They also encourage progress in the farmers by organising competitions for poultry-rearing, fruit-growing, etc. Scholarships have been granted to a number of young men who wish to take up farming, so as to allow them to study methods in foreign agricultural schools. Further, there is an agricultural bank which, curiously enough, dates back from the Turkish days.
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