Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frescoes from the Past," in Life on the Mississippi," Mark Twain. For a reason nobody knows, Twain decided not to include this as a chapter in Huckleberry Finn. The tale is perhaps too completely black; it evokes throughout a strange mixture of gut-laughter and gut-fear. One thing for sure: having read it, you won't think the same of Huckleberry Finn, or its avuncular author, again. Not for abjurers of dead baby jokes...
...Each chapter is a 15-minute segment, and each chapter takes on a new set of characters," Vilmure said of what he called "a kind of a literary experiment...
Last semester John headed a study group of approximately five students who read Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America" from front to cover and analyzed it, chapter by chapter...
...Harvard M.B.A. and now the firm's chief operating officer. Bennett, an aggressive trader who was a national champion wrestler as a Yale undergrad, has shown an uncanny knack for spotting gems among securities that, as he puts it, "scare 99% of investors." When a company files for Chapter 11, Bennett goes through troves of financial information that surfaces in court papers. Even firms that may never emerge from bankruptcy are worth a look, he says, if the value of their / assets is not fully reflected in the price of their securities. Earlier this year, Bennett decided that bonds issued...
...autobiography, Pat Robertson described his brief 1959 ministry in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in a chapter titled "Rats, Roaches and Bedbugs." With the televangelist harboring such fond memories of the local insect population, it seemed strange that Robertson would select this slowly gentrifying black neighborhood to formally declare his G.O.P. presidential candidacy...