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  • I never would have thought one could apply that same standard to a doctoral dissertation, but then I came across a brilliant little website called Dissertation Haiku.

    John Lundberg: Doctoral Dissertations In Haiku 2009

  • England, I know not who, has been pleased to intitle a Dissertation on the cannon and the Feudal

    John Adams diary 15, 30 January 1768, 10 August 1769 - 22 August 1770 1961

  • The only Plea I can use in Mr. _C ---- 's_ behalf, is, that the Author of the Dissertation has been a little too free with his Character, which probably occasioned that Sullenness in our _British Oedipus_; who in Order to be revenged, has determined not to embelish the

    A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727) Henry Carey

  • It is by a certain John Charles Conrad Oelrichs, author of several scraps of literary history, and is called a Dissertation concerning the Fates of Libraries and Books, and, in the first place, concerning the books that have been eaten -- such I take to be the meaning of "Dissertatio de Bibliothecarum ac Librorum Fatis, imprimis libris comestis."

    The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

  • It is instrumental in me finishing my Dissertation which is on Character Design.

    squee. ginasketch 2006

  • The story itself isn't enough to fill even a short paperback, so a "Dissertation" is tacked on at the end, in which Hurwood cheekily rehashes a bunch of crap about vampires from his other books on the subject, even quoting himself as an expert.

    DRACUTWIG by Mallory T. Knight (Award 1969) 2006

  • The story itself isn't enough to fill even a short paperback, so a "Dissertation" is tacked on at the end, in which Hurwood cheekily rehashes a bunch of crap about vampires from his other books on the subject, even quoting himself as an expert.

    READY, STEADY, GO! by Shawn Levy (Doubleday 2002) 2006

  • The story itself isn't enough to fill even a short paperback, so a "Dissertation" is tacked on at the end, in which Hurwood cheekily rehashes a bunch of crap about vampires from his other books on the subject, even quoting himself as an expert.

    Archive 2006-07-23 2006

  • He wrote a 'Dissertation' on the subject, and especially on a certain apple called the Royal Wilding, from which it had just been discovered (about 1710) a very superior kind of cider could be produced.

    Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

  • [1] For our authorities and full information on this important controversy we refer our readers to the admirable "Dissertation," by Baudry, in the supplementary volume (ix.) of Migne's edition of the "Works of S. Francis and S. Jane Frances."

    Treatise on the Love of God 1567-1622 1884

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