My Four Score and Ten Years
Title | My Four Score and Ten Years PDF eBook |
Author | James W. Drury |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2010-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1450210740 |
My Four Score and Ten Years is the memoir of a nonagenarian husband, father, grandfather, Kansas University professor, and world traveler. Jim Drury tells the story of his life, which spans most of the twentieth century, beginning with stories of his own grandfather in the 1880s. His recollections include the time he spent in Japan, Pakistan, Costa Rica and Poland, on the campus of KU and touring around the world with his wife in their later years. Jim Drury was born in 1919 in East St. Louis, Illinois. He studied at the University of Illinois and did his graduate work at Princeton. He lived in Washington, D.C., during the Second World War and served in the US Army. He remained an Army Reservist until his retirement. It was in Washington that he met and married his wife of over sixty-five years, Florence (nicknamed Danny). He and Danny later moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where they have lived for most of their lives and where Jim was a Professor of Political Science at Kansas University for over forty years. Jim and Danny have traveled extensively and lived for short periods in Japan, Pakistan, Costa Rica, and Poland.
A Shropshire Lad
Title | A Shropshire Lad PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Edward Housman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Cities and towns |
ISBN |
Lincoln at Gettysburg
Title | Lincoln at Gettysburg PDF eBook |
Author | Garry Wills |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2012-12-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1439126453 |
The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead, he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom" in the space of a mere 272 words. His entire life and previous training, and his deep political experience went into this, his revolutionary masterpiece. By examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, Wills breathes new life into words we thought we knew, and reveals much about a president so mythologized but often misunderstood. Wills shows how Lincoln came to change the world and to effect an intellectual revolution, how his words had to and did complete the work of the guns, and how Lincoln wove a spell that has not yet been broken.
Four Score Years and Ten
Title | Four Score Years and Ten PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Davies |
Publisher | |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 2010 |
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Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
Title | Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Mark Roget |
Publisher | Prabhat Prakashan |
Pages | 531 |
Release | 2021-01-01 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN |
Have you struggled for just the right phrase when grappling with a class assignment? Crafting an office memo, do you want greater clarity and concision? Pounding away at a last-minute blog entry, haven't you ever thought, There has to be a better word for this? Now there is. Under the time-tested and respected banner of Roget's Thesaurus, here is an array of words and their definitions organized by meaning. With this volume at your side, you need never be stalled or stymied for an appropriate expression, whether speaking of the higher reaches of philosophy or holding forth on art, music, or poetry--or other highbrow pastimes. The more you expand your vocabulary, the richer and clearer your writing and conversation will become. And the better you'll be able to say exactly what you mean, joining intellectual discussions with confidence that you've found just the right words.
Four Score Years and Ten
Title | Four Score Years and Ten PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Bindon Blood (G.C.B., G.C.V.O.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1933 |
Genre | |
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The Decimal System in Numbers, Coins, and Accounts
Title | The Decimal System in Numbers, Coins, and Accounts PDF eBook |
Author | John Bowring |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1854 |
Genre | Decimal system |
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