Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Juan Fernández Islands, that a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk was put ashore in 1704 after a row with his captain. There he lived in rugged solitude for four years. When he got back to England, Selkirk published a personal journal of his adventures, and from his account Daniel Defoe wrote The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe...
...whisper and had just time to sidestep. It was this way. The British King & Queen took it into their heads to visit the U.S. while I was still there, and the American police, having learned of the strained relations between our two houses on account of what happened to Hugh [an O'Donnell defeated by the British at the Battle of Kinsale in 1601], were anxious to have a word with me." Peadar sought out a top man at headquarters, "and who should he turn out to be but a man from a village where I could name...
...account, Painter Kyosai was a problem child. He disliked cakes and toys, liked paddling after frogs. His first studied drawing, he recalled, was a frog he sketched in 1834-at the age of three...
...careful religious education, says Mrs. Chaplin, should help a child to express church doctrine in his own words. She quotes Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick's account of a 14-year-old boy's answer to the question: "Why did Jesus have to die?" Replied the youngster...
...interviews. Kinsey and his coworkers, he said, give human memory a precision it does not have; "they recognize that we can 'forget,' but not that we can 'misremember.'" For instance, he said, the book seriously discusses sexual experiences recollected from early childhood without taking into account all the forces, like dreams, that can distort children's memories...