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  • Last week the Red Cross bypassed the port by unloading a ship-laden with rice donated by French schoolchildren-onto smaller boats that delivered the food to shore north of the city.

    Battlefields Of The Food War 2008

  • Husband and wife began the long journey side by side with equal talent, hope, energy; his work led him along the high-road, hers lay in a quiet nook; his name became world-known, hers was scarcely heard beyond the precinct of her own village; and yet who can say that his life was the more successful, who can say that the quiet falling rain, with its slow resultant of flower and fruit in each little garden nook, is less important than the mighty ship-laden river bearing its wealth of commerce in triumph to the sea?

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

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