Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...infringed is included in Chapter 47 of the General ordinances. It says, in part: "Nor shall any person distribute in a public street. . . hand-bills. . . circulars, or papers of any kind, except newspapers. Whoever violates. . .this ordinance shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for each offence." Captain Brennan pointed out that Cohen gave out about five hundred circulars, and, construing each as an offence, he should have been fined...
...sequestered nooks and lavatories, and a ceaseless round of hot-and-bothersome dancing, this play will be a surprise. To men of Williams College it may even be shocking. For at the house-party herein represented a murder is done, and the locale of the deed is a chapter house on the pleasant campus at Williamston, Mass...
...chapter by Albert Einstein occurs the following sentence: "The measurement of time is effected by means of clocks." Definition: "A clock is a thing which automatically passes in succession through a (practically) equal series of events (period)." Dr. Einstein advises readers to scan Sir James Jeans' article on Relativity before reading his own seven columns on Space-Time...
...Tunney chapter says: ". . . Boxing up to this time [circa World War] had a most dreadful inheritance in the way of reputation. ... As a rule, they [prize-fighters, managers et al.] were sinister people with few scruples, vulgar and brutal to a marked degree . . . branded as outcasts . . . until the government, in 1917 . . . adopted it [boxing] as an important means for quickly fitting untrained men for rigorous soldier-life. . . . The modern boxer realizes that unless he is mentally equipped his chances for success are very slim...
...similar festival the earnest Bishop arranged for Canterbury. Throughout the week, Dr. Faustus by Kit Marlowe, who used to lie and dream on Canterbury's hills, was alternated with Everyman. Other attractions were concerts in the Cathedral's nave, serenades in the cloisters, chamber music in the chapter house. Newsreeling cinemen jostled through the crowds. Every event went out to all Britain by radio...