Word: paragraphic
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CAPSULIZED COST OF LIVING PARAGRAPH...
Duty Before Pleasure. Manhattan's tabloid Daily News, sharing its cameraman's pique, brushed off the wedding in a single sniffy paragraph. The good grey New York Times gave more space to the squabbling than to the wedding. Only the Herald Tribune, among all nine Manhattan papers, put duty before pleasure, and ran a fetching picture of the wedding- taken before the photographers walked...
...Russian political propaganda and agitation, Charles Darwin is the most quoted of English scientists, because his Origin of Species is considered a refutation of the supernatural. Toward the end of Komarov's speech, he reviewed British science in two paragraphs, most of which was devoted to the great work done by Darwin. American science was covered in one paragraph, which mentioned Benjamin Franklin...
...Creator. How was it that a 23-year-old soldier from New Mexico, who had never harmed a flea in his life, could achieve such fame-and such authority? A paragraph of Up Front casts some light on the mystery. After five years in the Army, Bill Mauldin fully understands the infantryman, and he has a sharp eye, a good ear and a facile pen for transmitting his understanding. He wrote...
From the last paragraph of Æs Triplex, by Robert Louis Stevenson...