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... foreign country , you have immediately the sensation of breathing a different air . Even in the first few minutes dozens of small things conspire to give you this feeling . The beer is bitterer , the coins are heavier , the grass is ...
... foreign country , you have immediately the sensation of breathing a different air . Even in the first few minutes dozens of small things conspire to give you this feeling . The beer is bitterer , the coins are heavier , the grass is ...
Page 49
... foreign food or to learn foreign languages . Nearly every Englishman of working - class origin considers it effeminate to pronounce a foreign word correctly . During the war of 1914-18 the English working class were in contact with ...
... foreign food or to learn foreign languages . Nearly every Englishman of working - class origin considers it effeminate to pronounce a foreign word correctly . During the war of 1914-18 the English working class were in contact with ...
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... foreign observer sees only the huge inequality of wealth , the unfair electoral system , the govern- ing - class control over the press , the radio and education , and concludes that democracy is simply a polite name for dictator- ship ...
... foreign observer sees only the huge inequality of wealth , the unfair electoral system , the govern- ing - class control over the press , the radio and education , and concludes that democracy is simply a polite name for dictator- ship ...
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