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  • - I'm sure that you will enjoy reading the chapter entitled: "Two Cheers For Colonialism -- How the West Prevailed."

    Foreign Aid and Growth, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Item: I noted with great interest a most unusual front-page piece in the New York Times February 10, headlined, "Geithner Said to Have Prevailed on the Bailout."

    Robert Kuttner: An Open Letter to David Axelrod 2009

  • Prevailed upon, he would join in her commiseration, but his sentiments would be obliging and false-hearted.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Prevailed upon, he would join in her commiseration, but his sentiments would be obliging and false-hearted.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Prevailed upon, he would join in her commiseration, but his sentiments would be obliging and false-hearted.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Prevailed upon, he would join in her commiseration, but his sentiments would be obliging and false-hearted.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Prevailed upon, he would join in her commiseration, but his sentiments would be obliging and false-hearted.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Prevailed upon, he would join in her commiseration, but his sentiments would be obliging and false-hearted.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Prevailed upon at last by Mrs. Bines to taste the soup, he was soon eating as those present had of late rarely seen him eat.

    The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • Prevailed; and, from those bonds released, she went

    THE EXCURSION BOOK SIXTH 1888

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