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...rgely made up for by the good will and generous efforts of the English and American press. An interesting monograph might be written upon these variou... ...er colonial expansion, Italy was a happy hunting ground for her busi- ness enterprise, France had come near resignation on the score of Alsace-Lorrain... ...ed that they used their early “pull” in Italian banking to favour Ger- man enterprises and German political influence against the development of nativ... ...l be frankly a ‘Deutsche Bank’ once more.” They assure me that then German enterprises will be favoured again, Italian and Allied enterprises block- a... ...ut out a bed of begonias. In Paris I met a charming 50 War and the Future American writer, the wife of a French artist, the lady who wrote My House o... ...of the weather when I visited the latter. It is quite impossible for me to institute comparisons between these two services. I should think that the B... ...nally into the writer’s study there come to hand drifting fragments of the American literature upon the ques- tion of “preparedness,” and American pap... ... Mr. David Lubin, the prime mover in the organisation of the International Institute of Agriculture in Rome. It is a movement that has always ap- peal... ...ips him and holds him at times white and silent. At first we talked of his Institute and its work. Then we came to shipping and transport. Whenever on...

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...paper and cane as Tom had done, but with a penny packet of Boys of England American ciga- rettes. His language shocked his father before he was twelve... ...able ties and collars, cigarettes, and short- hand classes at the Bun Hill Institute. He would go round to T om at times, and look and talk so brillia... ...ansit at a high velocity. So Bert grew up, filled with ideals of speed and enterprise, and became, so far as he became anything, a kind of bicycle eng... ...ly that it was during the consequent great rise of prices, confidence, and enterprise that the revival of interest in flying occurred. It is curious h... ...t was that particularly impressed Bert Smallways. “If them Germans or them Americans get hold of this,” he said impressively to his brother, “the Brit... ...al in the business for the benefit of Tom. But, as I have said, Tom had no enterprise in his composition. His idea of investment was the stocking; he ... ...r and cigarette shop opposite dis- played such placards as this:— REPORTED AMERICAN ULTIMATUM. BRITAIN MUST FIGHT. OUR INFATUATED WAR OFFICE STILL REF...

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...asin belongs to by the make of it. Name it in horse talk, and could do it in American if I had speech. I know some of the Indian signs — the signs the... ...A scout horse that has a reputation does not play with it. My mother was all American — no alkali spider about her, I can tell you; she was of the bes... ..., and she has her father’s vivacity and cheerfulness and pluck and spirit of enterprise, with the affectionate disposition and sincerity of both paren... ...’s only disputing, and bragging, the way children do. They want her to be an American, but she can’t be any thing but a Spaniard, she says. You see, ... ...rd it.” “Where did you overhear it?” “Years ago. I was with the Philadelphia Institute expedi tion in the Bad Lands under Professor Cope, hunting mas...

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...ne of his heroes, and of Lancashire origin, strangely!), flew to the South American station, in and about Lord Cochrane’s waters; then as swiftly back... ...g the strong salt of his similes, likening that rascal and his crew to the American weed in our waters, to the rotting wild bees’ nest in our trees, t... ...midshipmite days, whole watches through—don’t you re- member? on the North American station, and in the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean. And that gir... ...e that he took to be the old gentleman’s until some of the apparatus of an Institute for literary and scientific instruction revealed itself to him, a... ...rd Palmet, but felt keenly that the latter’s presence desecrated Wingham’s Institute, and he in- formed the candidate that he thought he would no long... ...roduced me neck and heels to that undertakerly old Tomlinson, of Wingham’s Institute; you might have given me a chance with that Miss—Miss Denham, was... ... might really love Nevil with a love that sent her heart out to him in his enterprises, justifying and adoring him, piercing to the hero in his very t... ...y newspaper, The Dawn, say, as a commencement. It began to seem a possible enterprise. It soon seemed a proxi- mate one. If Cecilia! He left the excla... ...to perceive in The 396 Beauchamp’s Career Dawn the one greatly beneficent enterprise of his day. He might through his daughter’s eyes, and the growin...

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...Contents At the Golden Gate ..................................................... 5 American Politics ....................................................... 18 American Salmon ...................................................... 29 The Yellowstone ........................................................ 3...

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...es by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication American Notes by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Rudyard Kipling American Notes by Rudyard Kipling Intr Intr Intr Intr Introduction oduction... ...t in a quarrel. At twenty they are experienced in business, embark in vast enterprises, take partners as experienced as themselves, and go to pieces w... ...lk from the desert, come in to trade with the Zion Mercantile Co-operative Institute. The Church, I fancy, looks after the finances of this thing, and...

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...eroplanes; it was not until 1898 that Mr. S.P. Langley (of the Smithsonian Institute) could send the writer a photograph of a heavier-than-air flying ... ...ming history. This world- wide war means a general arrest of invention and enterprise, except in the direction of the war business. Ability is con- ce... ...rld peace. There are a few special secretaries employed by phil- anthropic Americans, and that is about all. There has been no provision made even for... ... the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of American citizens. He has no mo... ...edent. It has also de- stroyed freedom—of movement, of speech, of economic enterprise. Hardly anyone alive has escaped the worry of it and the threat ... ... so suicidal a possibility. America too, it may be, will develop some Pan- American equivalent. Probably the hundred millions of Latin America may ach... ...national or racial Kultur, or fall into the grip of any group of financial enterprises. They will be more comprehensive, less roman- tic, and more bus...

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...young person as you are, I need not enlarge on all the difficulties of the enterprise. I am sure that you would never attribute good sense to a strang... ...anat, the Re- ceiver-General’s wife, spoke with some enthusiasm of a young American owning an immense fortune, who had fallen pas- sionately in love w... ...g up her strange and secret search, almost despairing of the success of an enterprise whose singularity may give some idea of the boldness of her temp... ... might be the outcome of the inquiry which he had begged a Paris friend to institute with refer- ence to the family of Longueville, he thought it his ...

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...R X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................................... 151 CHAPTER XI: CERES AMERICANA .......................................................................................................... 169 CHAPTER XII: BUFFALO TO NEW YORK ..........................................................................

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....................................................... 151 CHAPTER XI: CERES AMERICANA .................................................................... ...t now my primary object. Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Americans, to which I believe I may allude as a well- known and successful ... ...may perhaps be able to add something to the familiarity of Englishmen with Americans. The writings which have been most popular in England on the subj... ...h, would be made very wel- come in Liverpool, of course I knew. If private enterprise could bring it, it might be brought. But the very declara- tion ... ...r Canada without seeing, and hear- ing, and feeling that there was less of enterprise around me there than in the States, less of general movement, an... ...0,000 of them in Lower Canada; but it seems that the wealth and commercial enterprise of the country is passing out of their hands. Montreal, and even... ...hould visit many of them. I went to schools, hospitals, lunatic asy- lums, institutes for deaf and dumb, water-works, histori- cal societies, telegrap... ...d him with insolence, but instantly published his answer in the papers. He instituted a system of passports, espe- cially constructed so as to incommo... ... a small price, they have an experienced physician and skillful nurses. An institute, with an extensive library, for the use of the mechanics, has bee...

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...THE POST-OFFICE .................................................................................................................... 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS................................................................................................................. 290 CHAPTER XV: LITERATURE ........................................................................

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............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...o believe in the one or in the other. For myself, I have much faith in the American character, but I cannot believe either in Washington City or in th... ...” and I must say she was very nice, pretty, and clean. I have always found American sailors on their men- of-war to be clean and nice looking—as much ... ...ir men, where are their books, where is their learn- ing, their art, their enterprise? I say it with sad regret at the decadence of so vast a populati... ...c edifices at Washington, should the South succeed wholly in their present enterprise? If Virginia should ever become a part of the Southern republic,... ...passing very freely; but away from this, ruin seemed to have fallen on the enterprise of the country. Men were not broken hearted, nor were they even ... ... proudly among the great blocks around it. It had become a “Physio-medical Institute” when I was there, and was under the dominion of a quack doctor o... ...rather, he began to do so. He 103 Trollope constructed barracks here, and instituted military pris- ons. The fortifications have been discontinued as... ...nrestrained arrests, and has locked men up with reason and without. He has instituted passports and surveillance; and placed himself at the head of an...

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...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ...upported by an entrepreneurial spirit and widespread understanding of free enterprise, augured well. But unprofitable heavy industry, state monopolies... ...1 and set up a large and complex set of intertwined business and terrorist enterprises. In time, the former would encompass numerous companies and a g... ...is ability to use Afghanistan as a base from which to revive his ambitious enterprise for war against the United States. For the first quarter century... ...ijackings or the use of aircraft as weapons. No new security measures were instituted. 48 Rice told us she understood that the FBI had tasked its 56 U... ...nse to the threat. They did not have direction, and did not have a plan to institute.The borders were not hardened.Transportation systems were not for... ...lians below the impact zone were able to evacuate the towers. The National Institute of Standards and T echnology has provided a prelim- inary estimat...

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... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...ght them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibility; it w... ...ndignation against the zeal of a Whig clergyman, he writes: “I daresay the American Congress in 1776 will be allowed to be as able and as enlightened ... ... we are not satisfied. We feel that he was not the man for so difficult an enterprise. He loses our sympathy in the character of a poet by attracting ... ...d business. Upon that subject gall squirts from him at a touch. “The whole enterprise of this nation is not illus- trated by a thought,” he writes; “i... ...le tenderness; he is always sounding hopefully to the front for some rough enterprise. And as his voice had something of the trumpet’s hardness, it ha... ...s by Calvin especially, one on Isaiah, and a new revised edi- tion of the “Institutes.” “I must be bold on your liberality,” he writes, “not only in t...