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Dissertations can be written about what these comparative numbers say about, first, the long-term strength of the U.S. economy and, second, whether its majestic growth in wealth is distributed fairly.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

Dissertations will surely be written about the multiple meanings of hair in this novel.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2019

“For America in her infancy to adopt the present maxims of the old world would be to stamp the wrinkle of decrepit age upon the bloom of youth,” he wrote in Dissertations.

From Time • May 12, 2015

Dissertations are not impossible, but they are very hard, and most people in the world—including, perhaps, you, my friend—cannot complete one.

From Slate • Aug. 1, 2014

Tales, now first collected: to which are prefixed Two Dissertations: 1.

From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 3 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various