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  • The remark about high prices charged set me to thinking why the men could not open a cooeperative store.

    Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 1920

  • Others got an idea that I had a cooeperative colony and all they had to do was to come and plant themselves on the land.

    From the Bottom Up Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941 1910

  • A group of literary people with whom I was acquainted had rented No. 3 Fifth Avenue, and were operating a cooeperative housekeeping scheme.

    From the Bottom Up Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941 1910

  • To any one about to form a cooeperative community I can recommend this institution as an infinitely better gauge of human character than either the ten commandments or the royal eight-fold pathway!

    From the Bottom Up Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941 1910

  • "Of causes some are principal, some preservative, some cooeperative, some indispensable; e.g. of education the principal cause is the father; the preservative, the schoolmaster; the cooeperative, the disposition of the pupil; the indispensable, time."

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • As usual, hesitation and tardiness characterized the orders and movements of the Union forces, and during the four days succeeding, Lee had captured Harper's Ferry with eleven thousand prisoners and seventy-three pieces of artillery, reunited his army, and fought the defensive battle of Antietam on September 17, with almost every Confederate soldier engaged, while one third of McClellan's army was not engaged at all and the remainder went into action piecemeal and successively, under such orders that cooeperative movement and mutual support were practically impossible.

    A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Nicolay, John G 1904

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