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Here Mr. Wells discusses with an incisiveness and penetrativeness all his own, conditions as he has seen them in three of the great countries engaged in the European War.

From American World Policies by Weyl, Walter E.

"But my eyesight," I asked, "how do you account for its unusual penetrativeness?"

From Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch by Lane, Mary E. Bradley