Word: chaptered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dodgson, I wish you would write out Alice's adventures for me." Two Men. Next day, on a train trip to London, Lewis Carroll drew up chapter headings for the book he originally called Alice's Adventures Underground. Illustrated by the great Sir John Tenniel, and expanded and rewritten, the first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland reached Alice exactly three years later. It was an immediate hit. and with its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, earned Carroll an affluence he did not want and the fame he detested. An aloof, high-strung eccentric, he insisted...
What was more, there was considerable doubt that the TWA contract would stick. It must be ratified by the TWA chapter of the flight engineers' union, and Ronald Brown, the union president, said of the members: "They don't like it. I don't think they...
...Franco will fall within five to six months," says Julio Just, a prominent exile leader living in Paris. "This is the beginning of the last chapter in the history of the Franco regime,'' agrees Jesus Prados Arrarte, chief economist of Spain's Central Bank, who recently fled the country. To some extent, this was typical exiles' talk; no one really expected imminent revolution in Spain. Nevertheless, it all testified to the rising expectation that El Caudillo. at 69, cannot last much longer. Everybody in Spain is waiting to see who will succeed...
...from his publisher and MGM, Wallace has sportingly given himself a heavy handicap: his subject is the men and women who win the Nobel Prize, but Wallace's intellectual giants have feet of such soft clay that they find it difficult to stay upright for longer than a chapter...
...Radcliffe College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa elected 21 members of the class of 1962, including: Mrs. Dorothy A. Bell, English; Dulcie J. Eames, English; Julia B. Freeman, biochemical sciences; Mary E. Gale, English; Barbara A. Gay, Romance languages & literatures...