Robins' book ends with an analysis of Copeland's legacy: Homeopathy remains an unproven practice that nevertheless is part of modern alternative medicine. Copeland's Cure: Homeopathy and the War between Conventional and Alternative Medicine The book ends on a hopeful note, as the school's Gay-St...
because its ends are simple; assertions of the moral elevation and loveliness of Germany; of the insuperable excellences of German Kultur, the Kaiser, and Crown Prince, and so forth; abuse of the "treacherous" English who allied themselves with the "degenerate" French and the "barbaric" Russia...
1. the extremity of the length of something, such as a road, line, etc 2. the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object 3. the extreme extent, limit, or degree of something 4. the most distant place or time that can be imagined: the ends of the earth. 5. the ti...
Then he cut the other line closest to him and in the dark made the loose ends of the reserve coils fast. He worked skillfully with the one hand and put his foot on the coils to hold term as he drew his knots tight. Now he had six reserve coils of line. There were two from each...
The ball drop has taken place annually since 1907. It was halted for two years during World War II, but crowds still flocked to Times Square.直到1995年，“落球”活动一直由其首创人雅各布·斯塔尔的家族公司管理。Until 1995, the ball drop was managed by the family company of its first creator...
of Parisians. Shortly thereafter Esmeralda is hanged, and Quasimodo, in hisgriefand despair, pushes Frollo from the cathedral tower. The novel ends many years later, when twoskeletons—that of a hunchback and that of a woman—are found embracing in Esmeralda’s tomb. Hugo reports that Phoebus...
We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus—and non-believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more ...
The War: Directed by Jon Avnet. With Elijah Wood, Kevin Costner, Mare Winningham, Lexi Randall. A Vietnam veteran helps his kids battle over a tree house while recovering from his traumatic war experience.
Meyer Wolfsheim's name wasn't in the phone book. The butler gave me his once address on Broadway, and I called Information, but by the time I had the number it was long after five, and no one answered the phone. ‘Will you ring again?' ...
of their serious and matronly sister.Her photograph stood before the pierglass.She held an open book on her knees and was pointing out something in it to Constantine who, dressed in a man-o-war suit, lay at her feet.It was she who had chosen the name of her sons for she was very ...