The novel is not a polemical tract, a detective thriller, a social protest, or even a "psychological novel".
Another tract a few blocks south and east had the city's largest gain of whites — 794.
He espoused Ranter ideas in his tract A Single Eye (1650).
He did find, however, that precise remeasuring of the tract, a square with sides two and a half miles long, had shown that it had "excess acreage".
Larry Penny, East Hampton's director of natural resources, called the tract "a remnant of the last advances of the Ice Age, which ended about 18,000 years ago".
There are many misconceptions in Colm Tóibín's Catalan nationalist tract (A sweet revenge for Catalonia, 31 July), which must be addressed.
When a small amount of bismuth combines with trace amounts of sulfur in saliva and the gastrointestinal tract, a black-colored substance called bismuth sulfide is formed.
Unless intent upon producing a polemical tract, a writer faces in such instances not only the pitfalls of stereotype -- the conniving, untrustworthy Palestinian, say, or the arrogant, trigger-happy Israeli -- but the perils of plot.
At the western edge of the tract, a service road extends from Hamilton Avenue to loading docks at the back of the building, separating the property from railroad tracks used by Metro-North's New Canaan branch.
The noises are softer or louder depending on the strength and speed of the contractions and on what is in the tract, a variable mix of solids, liquids and gas, both swallowed air and the waste products of intestinal bacteria.
The system uses the strength and phase of the signal received by the antennas to track the pill so that the doctor can know approximately where in the digestive tract a particularly image was taken.
