Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joining George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, in opposing the proposed research at Harvard's Biology Laboratories were several members of the Boston chapter of SftP: Jonathan R. Beckwith '57, professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Richard C. Lewontin '50, Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Steven Chorover, professor of Psychiatry at MIT, and Jonathan King, associate professor of Biology...
...time and place when things "Gaelic" traditionally occur: "the middle of the night in the end of the house." Darkness, and the pigs and people lying in the rushes in the end of the house create the atmosphere of the novel throughout. The pigs, especially, make atmosphere; one chapter describes a near-fatal smothering of the O'Coonassa family due to the smell of the pigs, "and a certain Ambrose, in particular...
...book by Sabatini almost impossible to stop reading? For the same reason it's almost impossible to stop watching the magician saw the lady in half. In Chapter 1 this author invariably tempts the reader to identify with a courageous young man, then thrusts the young man into marrow-freezing danger. From there on the suspense rarely lets...
Changing Styles. These are just a few of the new immigrants who today are changing the face of America. Though many people think of mass immigration as a closed chapter in the nation's history, more than 1,000 newcomers now arrive in the U.S. every day. Since American birth rates are declining, that influx from abroad represents about one-fifth of the nation's annual increase in population. The new immigrants are changing local styles, too. Miami's Eighth Street is now Calle Ocho, the main thoroughfare of bustling Little Havana
...were their true, natural home. There is also the possibility that reason in time will lose the religious and moral grounding it has today and turn into a mere mechanical instrument, unable to guide man through his most difficult problems. The Americans, however, may yet write a new, brighter chapter to man's story. While trusting in reason as no other men in government have before them, the representatives to Congress seem determined to hedge that trust by creating a government or governments that check one man's reason against the reason of his fellows-and to check...