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Harvard has a group of students who never carry books, who never go to the Bick for after-class coffee, and who think a bluebook is pretty because the cover is of such a pleasing shade...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Nursery School is Center For Educational Research | 10/9/1953 | See Source »

...business in the days when business was dead set against organized labor. He probed the bloody Memorial Day riot at Chicago's Republic Steel plant (10 dead), and laid the blame on Chicago's goonlike police force. He reported that some 2,500 companies (a "bluebook of American industry") had sent hireling spies into unions to infiltrate and disrupt organized labor. And, inadvertently, he provided Communist pamphleteers with source material which they still drag out to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Insurgent's Way | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...third great bluebook, Debrett's Peerage, concerns itself less with genealogy and more with cataloguing present nobility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pruning Time | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...main purpose is to give young men who show promise economic security," says Professor C. Crane Brinton '19, chairman of the Society "so that they are not required to be section men or bluebook readers to earn the money for their research...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Society of Fellows Offers Educational Freedom, Gracious Living To 24 Chosen Young Scholars | 5/24/1951 | See Source »

Barring rain, snow, hail, sleet, gloom of night, or incompetence in high places, every student will soon see his grades. But the man who wants his bluebook back may find that some departments won't let him do more than peck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exams Also Teach | 2/8/1950 | See Source »

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