William Thomas, a senior American congressman, told delegates that rich-world subsidies and other non-tariff barriers, such as sanitation inspections, still block imports of African foodstuffs: crateloads rot in American ports.

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There are such high points as a voluptuous Gaston Lachaise nude, a tough-minded Cubist Max Weber, a raucous William Glackens, a lovely two-sided sheet of Thomas Sully watercolor sketches.

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He emerges from these pages as Germany's equivalent of America's Thomas Jefferson or Britain's William Ewart Gladstone: a polymath of prodigious energy and formidable intellectual power.

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One of the first comprehensive lists of multiples was put together by William Ogburn and Dorothy Thomas, in 1922, and they found a hundred and forty-eight major scientific discoveries that fit the multiple pattern.

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Before boarding my plane, I managed to squeeze in a visit to the splendid Owens-Thomas House, a neoclassical mansion designed by the Anglo-American architect William Jay.

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Thomas Edison made a film of it, and a future movie mogul, William Fox (he was still Nineteenth Century Fox then), hawked pretzels to the crowd.

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But if they think that was bad, it may prove to be a walk in the park compared with facing the French trio of Thomas Domingo, William Servat and Nicolas Mas.

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The story is based on a single incident related to MacDonald about William Killick, Vera's husband, shooting a gun through the window of the Thomas's home.

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