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...stamp, with the President's autograph on the fly-leaf; the smallest existent Babylonian clay tablet, dating about 2800 B.C.; the smallest pack of playing cards and smallest newspaper in the world; a Testament in shorthand, the key of which permitted the decodation of Pepys' famous diary; and the almanac of King Edward VII when Prince of Wales. The complete diminutive library totals over 100 volumes...
...Hours later he reported: "Nothing ever happened in this world on Feb. 4." His thanks was a blast of purple oaths from Huey Long. Arthur G. Newmyer, one of the publishers of the New Orleans Item, was roused by telephone. A member of his family dug from the World Almanac the fact that President Wilson had severed relations with Germany on the night of Feb. 3. Huey Long pounced on it: "It took them two nights at least to do a job like that." He turned to Governor Allen: "Oscar, make it for the nights...
...demands a division of the courses into two corresponding groups. In the one which deals with the individual's reactions, an integration of the first two approaches mentioned above is essential. Without the livening injection of aesthetic values the student concentrating merely on style development, degenerates into an animated almanac of precise and inconsequential facts; without the control of style, the aesthete intent on whetting his own sensibilities sinks into a condition of hazy introversion, characterized by flowing hair and a precieux smirk. In order that students may derive the greatest possible benefit from the objective view, the Fine Arts...
...weekly?"America's Greatest Family Newspaper"?of 14 pages plus fiction supplement, aimed carefully at the smalltown family. In makeup it looks as the Christian Science Monitor might look if the Monitor were checkered with pictures. In content it is a strange combination of newspaper, magazine section, almanac, mail order catalog...
...than any other man, personally responsible for the new building, had placed a lead box containing ceramic photographs of the present court and of Chief Justice Taft, a Congressional Directory, copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the Attorney General's last annual report, a World Almanac, and the latest volume of Supreme Court opinions. As the stone clumped down to rest for centuries the Marine Band closed the ceremony with "The Star-Spangled Banner...