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... perhaps into the revelation of their true qualities . Thus one officer , Rabb , ' an efficient and popular officer ... Perhaps not . Perhaps no one could have borne that foreknowledge . But passing instead from each known moment only to ...
... perhaps into the revelation of their true qualities . Thus one officer , Rabb , ' an efficient and popular officer ... Perhaps not . Perhaps no one could have borne that foreknowledge . But passing instead from each known moment only to ...
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... perhaps twenty families and twenty cars were there . They are group - man , a species in which the individual counts for as much and as little as an individual cell in the human body . And this impression of group - man is further ...
... perhaps twenty families and twenty cars were there . They are group - man , a species in which the individual counts for as much and as little as an individual cell in the human body . And this impression of group - man is further ...
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... perhaps too much of its time and movement . His first novel , The Wild Goose Chase ( 1938 ) , recounts the adventures of three brothers who set out to find the wild goose , which stands perhaps for freedom or political justice . They ...
... perhaps too much of its time and movement . His first novel , The Wild Goose Chase ( 1938 ) , recounts the adventures of three brothers who set out to find the wild goose , which stands perhaps for freedom or political justice . They ...
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