Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carrington, who also founded the Harvard chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (an event that was followed by the burning of a cross as a "prank" in front of a suite of black students' rooms in the Yard), said that students who were involved in civil liberties issues were a distinct minority on campus. "Some of us were very active in fighting loosely defined 'anti-subversive' state legislation but on the whole ours was indeed the silent generation." Even those who were involved in civil liberties issues "were often hawks on foreign policy...
...June 1, 1870, Illustrator John Tenniel sent his author a letter of complaint. "Don't think me brutal," he wrote, "but I am bound to say that the 'wasp' chapter doesn't interest me in the least." He found that depicting an insect with a golden wig was "altogether beyond the appliances of art." Reluctantly, Lewis Carroll expunged the episode of the wasp from his manuscript of Through the Looking Glass. For more than a century even scholars assumed that the chapter was lost or destroyed -until 1974, when an inconspicuous entry appeared in the London...
Massachusetts law and a contract between the City of Cambridge and Ellery Garage state that charges imposed for storage of vehicles that are towed away shall not exceed two dollars for any 24-hour period. The statute is part of Chapter 40, section 22d of Massachusetts state law on traffic regulations...
...dreadful 19th century novels, and fatuous, hypocritical ladies' magazines. She has made the proper linkages to British Victorianism and German romantic philosophy. She has analyzed the lives and works of 30 women and 30 liberal clergymen (there was a high percentage of literary Unitarians). There is an excellent chapter on the life of Margaret Fuller, the American Transcendentalist who challenged the sentimental female stereotype by participating in the activity and danger of Italy's struggle for independence. Douglas also offers a penetrating chapter in which the works of Herman Melville are seen as bitter social criticisms subtly designed...
...closing of this historic chapter," Allende said in his final broadcast, "I will pay with my life for the loyalty of the people. And I say to you, they have the strength, but they will fail, because they cannot stop the social process with crimes or with force. History is ours, it is made by the people." Allende, Charles Horman, and more than 50,000 Chileans have paid with their lives for their dream of a better world. The people who made Avenue of the Americas and It's Raining in Santiago share that dream--a dream of a wealthy...