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Student. At the Fort Devens, Mass, library, The Butcher's Handbook was returned with a bookmark in it-a strip of bacon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 1, 1941 | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...Simple Bookmark, in which the operator by lifting his reading glasses releases a flock of moths who eat a woolen sock which drops a tear-gas bomb which causes a small dog to weep into a sponge whose added weight puts into operation a magic lantern which casts on the book's cover the likeness of a man who has stolen the wife of an angry dwarf who plunges a dagger through the picture and into the book, stopping when he strikes a pet flea who jumped between the pages to sleep when the book was laid down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lala Palooz | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Using an uncashed check as a bookmark brought Ralph J. Baker, professor of Law, to the brink of disbarment when the Supreme Court cited him for "unbecoming conduct." Mr. Baker's dealings were exposed by the Court in a pause yesterday following the decision returning $200,000,000 in impounded AAA processing taxes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Supreme Court Scores Law Professor for Losing Check | 1/14/1936 | See Source »

...suggestions which will enable them to preserve their friendly volumes through long grinds. The fingers should not be wet to turn the leaves, nor should the corners be turned down to mark the place. These tend to make dog ears. Rather mark the place with some bookmark. The simplest, and one of the best, is a card as large as a small visiting card. By cutting this twice longitudinally from one end almost to the other, you will have a three-legged book-mark which rides a-straddle on the page, one leg on the page below...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CARE OF BOOKS. | 1/28/1884 | See Source »

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