Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successful at outwitting the rebels ("He thinks like a fellagha," says one of his officers) that the army put him in charge of a special school which next month will begin to give French officers intensive training in combatting "subversive war." Last week the French army let out one chapter in Bigeard's career that hitherto had been kept secret-the cloak-and-dagger tale of how he, in effect, became commander of a band of enemy terrorists in Algiers' casbah...
Alan Wood's biography is not a definitive one. It hardly could be since the tireless octogenarian it has for its subject has already survived his biographer (who died last year) and has, since the book reached the stands, created the need for another chapter by leading the nuclear disarmament movement which is now rocking England. Even so, the author often takes too doting an attitude. Most intelligent children are somewhat saddened, for example, when they find that Euclid's axioms cannot themselves be proven; but in the disappointment of the eleven-year old Russell, Wood imagines he sees already...
Members of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa met last night to elect this year's Junior Eight. New members were chosen from a wide range of Houses and fields of concentration...
...feels also that Handlin has over-emphasized Smith's Catholicism in discussing his 1928 defeat, and has paid inadequate attention to Prohibition as an issue. This fault appears not so much in the chapter on the election itself, but in subsequent references, as when he analyzes Smith's feelings about another nomination, or the position of the Catholic politician in America...
...writing, Kittredge used all of the amazingly diversified material that he read, as two successive footnotes to chapter seven of Witchcraft in Old and New England show, "1. Thucydides, ii., 48. 2. Boston Transcript, January 17, 1918." In addition to using the products of his research for his own purposes, he invariably sent bibliographical references to his colleagues when he found something pertinent to their research...