Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, to hear most officials tell it, the only money that ever changes hands on a golf course these days goes to the caddies. As for that roll that was handed over to the winner of the tournament, well, he is probably the head of the local Red Cross chapter, and is simply taking the club's annual collection down to the bank. At 6 p.m. Sunday...
...fascinating account of the New Republic's vascillating attitude toward World War One, presenting the dilemma of a magazine that simply couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a liberal government's House-organ or a conservative administration's shrill and ineffectual opponent. There's a fine chapter on Colonel House himself, the intellectual pimp of Wilsonian progressivism, and his relations with the journalist Lincoln Colcord. Lincoin Steffens is taken to pieces for walking into his "scientific" study of corruption with pretty clear notions of what he was going to find, then kindly put back together again...
...first chapter of an intricate crime story that might be entitled Murph the Surf, His Yeggs and All That Unfenceable Swag, a band of thieves slipped into New York City's American Museum of Natural History and footpadded out with 24 gems, including the priceless Star of India sapphire and the $140,000, 100.32-carat DeLong ruby. Chapter II: the cops picked up Jack ("Murph the Surf") Murphy and two Miami beachboy buddies-but not the jewels. Through contacts, the police began shadowy negotiations with the underworld, eventually regained nine of the stones, among them the Star of India...
...last chapter, it becomes clear what that point is. In the character of an old priest who prays for the redemption of all the Russians, Author Tertz says: "He was only a village priest, but one thing he knew: that even if his church were the last on earth, he must stay at his post on the edge of the world and continue to work for the salvation of impious men-continue to work like an ox, like a laborer, like a king-like the Lord God Himself...
Metcalf's letter was motivated by Sigma Chi's suspension of its Stanford chapter after the California group proposed the admission of a Negro to the fraternity. Metcalf was a member of the Stanford chapter of Sigma...