When his widow went to collect on his small life insurance policy from Liberty National Life Insurance Co.
Through the book we come to appreciate just how big our galaxy--not to mention the universe--is, while understanding how small life's essential particles and agents truly are.
Then the pressure of small town life has found its way to Gotham, where apparently they still use Firefox (how retro).
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Sure, the drive can be a pain sometimes, but I feel like we get the small town life with many of the city benefits.
Our attention is often captured by news about large products such as cruise liners or airplanes, but one of the best ways for investors to think big is by thinking about the small things in life: the really, really small things.
The retailer is squashing small businesses and, thus, the small-town life the magazine champions.
Businesses in the area cater to small-town life and the people passing through.
One is the economic damage from uncertainty--which is small compared with life and limb but seems large if you lose your job.
The country's environment minister talks fondly of small-island life, particularly its sense of community, which he feels is missing in the bustle of Male.
So why deny us obsessive-compulsive types the small pleasures in life?
Bo can be found in nearly every room, from small ornaments to life-size topiaries made from everyday materials like felt, buttons, candy and even trash bags!
Mr Vann uses two sequences to transform what could be another routine tale of small-town life, hurling the book into the outer darkness of the heart.
Not so, says John Krubski, research advisor of The Guardian Life Small Business Research, which released its list of trends for small businesses in 2012.
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More recently, Lee County harbors traditional trappings of small-town life.
Like nature, government abhors a vacuum, and the real source of big government in our time is a breakdown of institutions large and small that gave life a predictable trajectory.
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That was the prototypical American fantasy of small-town life.
Where the established women's magazines compete to see who can publish the raciest cover photo or give the most advice about orgasms, Wright would celebrate small-town life the way Norman Rockwell did.
While big-city dwellers are often maligned by those who prefer the charms of small-town life, Park and Peterson note that most people in the country live in big cities and that studies prove that the vast majority of those living in metropolises are happy about it.
Life in small-town India may be better, for now, but it is precarious.
But if the euro zone insists that Greece follow the bailout, the government's relatively small primary balance makes life outside the euro zone more feasible.
"I believe every gal can add a little glam to her life with small things, " be it red lipstick, leopard pumps or a rhinestone necklace.
This is rather more than just a few people whinging (as our friends from Oz would put it) about a small decline in battery life.
Many conservatives will doubtless reply that education's debasement threatens our capitalistic, small government way of life thanks to all the "liberal" teachers, but history proves otherwise.
In an oxygen-free (anaerobic) environment at a certain temperature, pH and salinity, the bacteria can produce a toxin that in very small amounts can cause life-threatening paralysis.
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Lenddo, a Hong Kong company now targeting borrowers in Colombia and the Philippines, makes small loans for "life-improving" purposes such as education, medical emergencies and home improvement.
For instance, when I was very young, you know, my parents were still married, and I lived sort of kind of a typical kid in small-town Kansas life.
On social media, we can share -- as Jim so often did -- big and small parts of our life, without worrying that others are too busy or simply not interested in hearing it.
The men include the 'Bermondsey Beast' rapist Michael Roberts, 46, who became one of a small group of "life means life" prisoners after raping three victims and attacking a fourth in Bermondsey, south London.
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