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There is no more effectual way of giving a traveler a vivid impression of the sparsity of settlement in a rural district than to let him lose his way.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various
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A vast amount of self-sacrificing work, on the part of teachers and parents, is needed to bring the schools of the Freedmen up to their proper standard, and to secure them, where they are still needed both in city and rural district.
The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy Robert Elliott Flickinger
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There was an atmosphere of the world about Sylvia which Mrs. Lem recognized at once from long experience with summer people; and secure in her pompadour, the psyche knot, and the shine of her best gown, she wished to show this young girl that her sophistication was shared even in a rural district.
The Opened Shutters Clara Louise Burnham 1890
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S. Peter and Calabria, were given over to marauding bandits; wide tracks of fertile country, like the S.enese Maremma, were abandoned to malaria; wolves prowled through empty villages round Milan; in every city the pestilence swept off its hundreds daily; manufactures, commerce, agriculture, the industries of town and rural district, ceased; the
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866
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Anson County School District, a rural district in North Carolina, has been recognized by Scientific Learning Corp. as a national reference site for the strides the district's struggling student readers have made with SLC's
unknown title 2009
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By law, the state must now take over the rural district 100 miles from San Jose.
Home 2009
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Heller's narrow advantage over challenger Jill Derby in Washoe County combined with his dominance across the rest of the rural district allowed him to stem the Democratic tide that helped deny Republican Rep. Jon Porter a fourth term in southern Nevada and made President-elect Barack Obama the only Democrat other than Bill Clinton to carry Nevada in more than four decades.
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They didn't think a woman could win in the rural district.
Newsvine - Get Smarter Here Associated Press Writer Gary D. Robertson 2008
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They didn't think a woman could win in the rural district.
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Heller's narrow advantage over challenger Jill Derby in Washoe County combined with his dominance across the rest of the rural district allowed him to stem the Democratic tide that helped deny Republican Rep. Jon Porter a fourth term in southern Nevada and made President-elect Barack Obama the only Democrat other than Bill Clinton to carry Nevada in more than four decades.
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