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... performed their indispen- sable functions . What the power complex did was to wrench these separate components from ... perform virtually interchangeable functions : not only in the sense that every operation is reducible to pecuniary ...
... performed their indispen- sable functions . What the power complex did was to wrench these separate components from ... perform virtually interchangeable functions : not only in the sense that every operation is reducible to pecuniary ...
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... perform services similar to those of a living elephant - if anyone could think up a plausible reason for doing so . While many ... performed by organized gangs of workmen with no mechanical apparatus at all . As further mechanization and ...
... perform services similar to those of a living elephant - if anyone could think up a plausible reason for doing so . While many ... performed by organized gangs of workmen with no mechanical apparatus at all . As further mechanization and ...
Page 364
... performed . The members of the orchestra take their seats . One of them begins to saw a violin in two . Others follow suit with axes . Loud noises , electronically produced , accompany this performance . In the end nothing is left . The ...
... performed . The members of the orchestra take their seats . One of them begins to saw a violin in two . Others follow suit with axes . Loud noises , electronically produced , accompany this performance . In the end nothing is left . The ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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