Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bakeless' last chapter, dealing with the weapons of the next war, proposes a striking remedy. War will be fought by entire populations with chemistry and bacteriology as well as airplanes and submarines. War will be everywhere. The distinction between soldiers and non-combatants will vanish. . . . "The solution of the whole problem is simple enough--so simple and so evident that there is little hope anyone will pay the least heed to it. We need but study the underlying causes of modern war, spread a knowledge of them among the people who must do the fighting, demonstrate the relatively slight chances...
...savors of the centuries and breeds remembrances of other novels which since times antique have sent a little girl from the country on, on and up--and watch out for the Butter and Egg man--on, on and into the theatre. But this is to rob the first chapter of its mystery. There is mystery there. If one were a Christopher North, one would add--"the mystery of why one reads the things at all"; as long as one is not, the mere intrigue which always associates itself with new print and new paper and the fact that the author...
...Chapter Second. 1. So Edward the Chief Ruler, after the Evening Sacrifice addressed himself to the Sons of Harvard, saying...
...Chapter First 1. And it came to pass in the ninth month, on the 23d Day of the Month, the Sons of Harvard murmured and said...
...there is a romantic chapter in the history of this country, it is that which covers the western migration over the Oregon trail. It was before gold in California had been discovered, and the covered wagon and the Indian were in their full glory. Mr. Chase is lecturing on these vagabonds to Oregon at 9 o'clock this morning in Harvard...