Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Author Cadart is concerned professionally with snails as food, he seems to regard them, even uncooked, with affection. His first chapter describes their slow, idyllic lives: how they emerge from the soil in spring after a few days of sunshine; how they cruise through the dewy dawn, laying down roads of silvery slime, in search of tender herbage; how they explore the nearby world with their sensitive tentacles; how they glide over obstacles; how they retire into their shells when wind or heavy rain strikes their tender skins. "The snail is a peaceable creature," says Cadart. "Excesses of nature...
Chicago's sculptors rallied to stave off the threat to a potential source of work for their profession. The city's chapter of Artists Equity thumbed through the city's records and found that "excluding cannons, boulders, flag poles, totem poles, chains and fire relics," there were only 68 works of sculpture for Chicago's 6,020 acres of parks with their 205 miles of boulevards and drives. Then, because Illinois Attorney General Latham Castle showed no inclination to contest the Art Institute's decision, Artists Equity moved to substitute its President Haydon and vociferous...
Louis Untermeyer will read "Orpheus and His Lute," and Caryl P. Haskins will deliver his oration, "Science and the Whole Man." Van Wyck Brooks '08, president of the chapter, will preside...
...authors and a research scientist will address the annual meeting of the College's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa this morning at 11 a.m. in Sanders Theatre. The Literary exercises will be open to the public without charge...
...Virginia's Bible-spouting Democratic Senator Matthew M. Neely was in rare form as he raged last week against President Eisenhower's veto of the 8.8% postal pay-raise bill (TIME, May 30). Cried he: "My text consists of the ninth and tenth verses of the seventh chapter of Matthew: 'What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?' For 1,900 years these questions remained unanswered. But now every postal employee...