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banquet of glimpses--
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These were men, wrote Lincoln Steffens, "who will not have an office unless it is up where the air is cool and fresh, the outlook broad and beautiful, and where there is silence in the heart of business."
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THE SUBMARINE as a weapon had come a long way by this time, certainly to the point where it killed its own crews only rarely.
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He recognized that the systemic malaise that caused it was a consequence in part of his own refusal over the years to limit his courtship of the finest wines, foods, and cigars.
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These were complicated people moving through a complicated time, before the monsters declared their true nature
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The war began with the geopolitical equivalent of a brush fire.
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But within a week, the brush fire gusted into a firestorm, spiking fears, resurrecting animosities, triggering alliances and understandings, and setting long-laid plans in motion.
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ameliorate Jewish
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most likely explanation is that there was indeed a plot, however imperfect, to endanger the Lusitania in order to involve the United States in the war.
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expected, well suited to Germany's guerrilla
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Such peaceful intervals never lasted long.
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sybarite.
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My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim.
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leisure
writing
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Hitler looked like a suburban hairdresser on his day off.
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He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.
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leadership
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The essence of war is violence and moderation in war is imbecility. -Admiral Jacky Fisher of the British Navy
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I didn't believe all her stories," Martha wrote later. "I thought she was exaggerating and a bit hysterical." When Martha left her hotel she witnessed no violence, saw no one cowering in fear, felt no oppression."
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had become friends and met often
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Whether out of professional pique or some instinct of fear, the ship's mascot--a cat named Dowie, after Captain Turner's predecessor--fled the ship that night, for points unknown.
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I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.
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crisis
emotion
panic
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They looked more like day laborers than seamen.
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competence
confidence
culture
professionalism
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Its 300 stokers, trimmers, and firemen, working 100 per shift, would shovel 1,000 tons of coal a day into its 192 furnaces to heat its 25 boilers and generate enough superheated steam to spin the immense turbines of its engines.
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Contrary to the predictions of many students of international problems, I feel fairly certain that we shall not have war in the near future.
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Never before in civilization have such numbers of young girls been suddenly released from the protection of the home and permitted to walk unattended upon the city streets and to work under alien roofs.
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What most likely caused the second event was the rupture of a main steam line, carrying steam under extreme pressure. This was Turner's theory from the beginning.
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With the physique of a bank safe, he was the embodiment of quiet strength.
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She and a friend joked about what to do if the ship were attacked. "Our stewardess laughed," Mrs. Lines recalled, "and said we would not go down, but up, as we were well loaded with munitions."
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In Calumet a thousand ornate streetlamps stood in a swamp, where they did nothing but ignite the fog and summon auras of mosquitoes.
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New York's perennial attraction was shopping.
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culture
materialism
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Murder was a fascination as always.
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distraction
entertainment
mortality
violence
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During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time.
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fear
intimidation
propaganda
reputation
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My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.
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evangelism
graciousness
pastor
prophecy
word-of-god
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Some captains made no attempt to save the lives of merchant seamen; others went so far as to tow lifeboats towards land. One u-boat commander sent the captain of a torpedoed ship three bottles of wine to ease the long row ashore.
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He slashed her throat in a Van Gogh stroke that nearly removed her head from her spine.
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Another raid followed on January 31, during which nine airships flew as far as Liverpool, along the way sending terrifying shadows scudding across the landscape of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
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In Minneapolis there had been only silence and the inevitable clumsy petitions of potato-fingered men looking for someone, anyone, to share the agony of their days. That
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The president of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, attended its grand opening.
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Galveston was too pretty, too progressive, too prosperous--entirely too hopeful--to be true.
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would be no skipping and dancing. No heathen. The exposition was a dream city, but it was Burnham's dream. Everywhere
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Ned watched her. She was young and pretty--a "handsome blonde," as he later described her."
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How easy it was to disappear: A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago.
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opening-lines
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Unterseebootkonstruktionsburo
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the station.
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Far from a clamor for war, there existed a widespread, if naive, belief that war of the kind that had convulsed Europe in past centuries had become obsolete--that the economies of nations were so closely connected with one another that even if a war were to begin, it would end quickly.
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