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Word: chapterful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proved that the realities were in some ways as unbelievable as the fantasies. The amateur collectors and skilled scientists fanned out into the New World gathering animals, insects and plants by the bushelful. By the end of the 19th century, they had succeeded in writing not merely a new chapter but a new volume in the annals of natural history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...date; you made us lag behind Israel in armament by a long way, and still I proceeded to fight, and-here we are. I am winning! What sort of friendly relations would you call this? Isn't it high time we buried the past and opened a new chapter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: In Search of Identity | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...linking the troubles of Explorer Meriwether Lewis (who died in 1809, probably a suicide, in "a seedy tavern"), Major General Edwin A. Walker (arrested in a Dallas men's room in 1976 for public lewdness), and Pat Nixon ("stress-related stroke"). This is simply idle, and a spongy chapter relating the life of New York City's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, who was neither an immigrant nor a name changer but is gathered into Morgan's embrace anyway, is not much better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Countless Blessings | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...DEATH was the omega of that experience. If he hadn't died it would have been like everything else in life, it just would have faded away. That chapter of my life was notable in that it was very enjoyable, I was very involved, and it had a very definite...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Tonto and the Ranger Hit the Jackpot at 10,000 Feet, or, Diamond Jim Cleans Out the Moffat Tunnel | 3/11/1978 | See Source »

...Wednesday night's Beanpot final wasn't excruciating enough, the icemen still have tonight's game against Yale at the Watson Rink remaining before the final chapter of the 1977-78 hockey season is completed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash, Hockey Teams Finish This Weekend | 3/4/1978 | See Source »

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