Word: bluebook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many traditionalists adhere to the old-fashioned methods, such as planting a roll of annotated toilet paper in the bathroom before the exam, or handing in a bluebook marked "second of two" and rushing back with book one four hours later...
...Dear Mother," wrote the Harvard student in his empty bluebook, and so began another triumph in the endless battle against the graders and The System...
...finished my exam," he continued, "and I thought I'd drop you a line." At the end of the exam, the wily undergraduate handed in the letter, pocketed an empty bluebook, and raced back to his room. He then, looked up the answers, wrote them in the bluebook, and mailed it home...
When the "mistake" was discovered, the student phoned his mother, told her to mail the bluebook to the grader posthaste and sat back to wait his excellent grade...
...combined newsstand sales have dropped to 510,000 from a peak of 4,100,000. But Steirman claims that both are in the black. In 1961, he resurrected Blue Book, a man's magazine dropped by McCall Corp. five years earlier as a bad job. Steirman's Bluebook for Men has a newsstand sale of only 150,000 and no detectable merit, but it is breaking even...