Word: booked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University catalogue of names for 1916-17 goes on sale this morning. Copies, at 40 cents each, may be obtained at the Co-operative Society, the Co-operative Branch, Amee Brothers, and George H. Kent's Bookstore. The book will not be for sale at the publication office in University Hall...
...friendly talk with Mr. Brett, president of the publishing company, after I had been apprised of the action, he admitted that 'persons of such importance and authority' that he could not disregard their complaints had handed in type-written lists of inaccuracies and compelled the suppression of the book. He said that many other complaints had been received, but when I asked him what their nature was he admitted that he had not looked into the matter personally. He was also unable to say who the 'important persons' were, or to whom the book had since been referred...
...volume is a photographic reproduction of the events leading to the world war, with footnotes and summaries of my own, and includes all the dispatches published in the French Yellow Book, German White Book, British Blue Book, and the books of the other important nations. It is intended to be a standard work on the subject for scholars of the present day and of the future. If it puts Great Britain in a bad light it is due to the absolute proof established in the chronological arrangement of the documents, a system which is the only fair way of obtaining...
...ideas as "scrapping" a misfit religion or saving souls by killing men, but put everything together and what is the final meaning of the sum total? We rather guess Shaw knew, but he has kept his secret, and the challenge "to make war on war" is virtually a sealed book. All this may be highly commended, for what didactic influence Shaw is attempting to make, is sent out over the footlights with a subtlety and belief that "the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick." Shaw forces moral and ethical discussion...
...features and directions to motorists, that what might well have been a dry-as-dust compendium is filled with lively interest. And to this is added an arrangement so carefully worked out, an index so complete and cross-references so accurate that the Handbook makes an unusually convenient reference-book...