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  • All their Days were pass'd in Quarrels, and their Nights

    Idalia, or, The Unfortunate Mistress: A Novel 1725

  • Quarrels between the men this year have been openly bitter.

    Israel Should Be a U.S. Campaign Issue Douglas J. Feith 2011

  • A specialist in topology, he authored Grassmannians and Gauss Maps in Piecewise-Linear Topology (Springer-Verlag, 1987), but he was better known to the general public for his critiques of pseudoscience and obscurantism, including Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), coauthored with Paul R.

    2009 October - Telic Thoughts 2009

  • Quarrels were avoided and differences were minimized in order that everyone might participate in the magic and mystery of the light returning and time renewing itself from the ashes of the past.

    Michael Meade, D.H.L.: The Growing Chaos and the New Year D.H.L. Michael Meade 2011

  • Quarrels started among the dragons, too, as each lead dragon sought to establish dominance over the others.

    Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas Carlos G.Tonda 2010

  • Condo Quarrels Jason Henry for The Wall Street Journal Sid Schulman at the entrance to his condominium complex's clubhouse, where a fingerprint scanner keeps delinquent homeowners out.

    Housing Pain Pits Neighbor Against Neighbor in Florida Dan Fitzpatrick 2010

  • In honor of the now ended #yaauthorfeud that broke out on twitter over the weekend, a few links: Rachel Donadio writing about literary feuds in 2006; theGuardianbookblogonsamein2007;and there's always Anthony Arthur's Literary Feuds: A Century of Celebrated Quarrels--From Mark Twain to Tom Wolfe.

    Hangovers 2010

  • "Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side."

    Weekend Open Thread 2010

  • Quarrels tend to break out between the marriage partners over genzeb (Amharic: money).

    Ethiopian Jewish Women. 2009

  • He was coauthor with Paul Gross of the 1994 book Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science the book which first called BS on the more ridiculous assertions of the postmodernist/social constructivist critique of science.

    The Panda's Thumb: October 2009 Archives 2009

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