Word: booklets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Geneva last week, ailing and half blind at 74, he handed to a friend the small blue booklet in which His Britannic Majesty commended his subject, Chaim Weizmann, to the world: the passport would be returned to Britain's Home Secretary. In a DC-4, Weizmann flew to Israel to assume the citizenship (and the presidency) of the Jewish state which he, more than any one man, had helped make a reality. Said he as he landed: "It is good to be home at last...
...document guaranteed to jolt even jaded upperclassmen is old stuff to every Radcliffe girl. It's a small, red, non-profit booklet issued once a year to every Annex student, and the title page keynotes the book. From top to bottom, it reads: "The Red Book, Student's Handbook of Radcliffe College," and "Each student is held responsible for all information contained herein...
Fact-Packed Booklet...
...have been studying my little booklet on regulations for students in Harvard College. The one you get at registration. Some of it is awesome...
...they have something even worse. They call it "Expulsion." The booklet says that "a student who is expelled can never be readmitted and his name is expunged from the records of the University." This surely is a ghastly punishment, but what does it mean? If someone's name is expunged, and then somebody walks into University Hall and wants to know if you ever went to Harvard, what happens? Do all the deans look blank and say they never heard of him? Do they say, "Yes, but we can't utter his name--it was expunged from the records...