Word: booklets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday school prize little Catharine Mabie won a booklet which told the pathetic story of an African slave girl. From that time forward, it was her ambition to bring Christianity to Africa's heathen. Under the auspices of the Baptist missions society, she set out in 1898 to fight fever and fetish in the Belgian Congo...
Instead they may now consult a several page booklet, published this week, listing businesses which have been found reliable by wives whose husbands are now attending the Law School. Several Law School wives pointed out, however, that it leaves one problem unanswered--where to find an apartment...
Sometimes we pass on information like this to people we think would be interested in it. For instance, our research into the problem of jobs for returning veterans ended up in a booklet called Reemployment of Veterans, which so impressed the War Department that they ordered copies for their orientation sections, convalescent hospitals...
...together a fascinating booklet on the subject (Water-supply Paper 416; 15?) which told the history of the dowsers, beginning with Moses, who lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly (Numbers 20: 11). Few modern dowsers hoped to equal Moses, but some of them offered prizes, such as oilfields or mineral deposits, which Moses and his nomads never coveted...
Television, still more babble than business, dignified its small talk with a glossary of its own last week. NBC published a 55-page booklet, listing words & phrases commonly used in video. Some were borrowed from cinema and radio, others were...