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Page 31
... looked like ticket offices each labelled with letters of the alphabet . She was told to hand in her husband's possessions at the ticket office labelled with the initial letter of his name . There were long queues of people , like ...
... looked like ticket offices each labelled with letters of the alphabet . She was told to hand in her husband's possessions at the ticket office labelled with the initial letter of his name . There were long queues of people , like ...
Page 124
... looked after vermin , we got rid of the rats , but the building of the hotel caused us a great deal of trouble . While the building operations were actually going on , the noise during the day was pretty bad , and we had double windows ...
... looked after vermin , we got rid of the rats , but the building of the hotel caused us a great deal of trouble . While the building operations were actually going on , the noise during the day was pretty bad , and we had double windows ...
Page 175
... looked out upon a world which had been first devastated by war and was now being economically devastated by peace . What could be more grey and grim than the dole and unem- ployment ; the communism of Stalin , the purges , the kulaks ...
... looked out upon a world which had been first devastated by war and was now being economically devastated by peace . What could be more grey and grim than the dole and unem- ployment ; the communism of Stalin , the purges , the kulaks ...
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