Word: books
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Book to be Widely Distributed...
...book that has been compiled is the result of an investigation undertaken several months ago upon the request of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. Information in regard to the 60 odd trades involved in the construction of ships is so compiled by the Bureau as to be readily understood by men who are not acquainted with technical terms used by ship-builders. Thus it is now possible for a man to obtain quickly and easily information in regard to some particular trade connected with ship construction. When it is considered that more than 250,000 and possibly more than...
...Pierpont Morgan '89 has loaned to the Fogg Art Museum five large and beautiful illustrated pages from an Italian choir book, probably of the 14th century. The sheets are richly decorated with gold and gorgeous colors. The scenes represented are Three Angels appearing to Abraham, the Nativity, the Adoration of the Magi, the Last Supper and the Ascension...
Effects of the war can be traced in many directions in the analyses of the publication lists furnished by the Publishers' Weekly. They are shown strikingly in an increase from 1916 of 244 books devoted to military and naval science. Great Britain produced in 1917 a book total of 8,131 volumes, against 9,149 in 1916. The issue of 782 pamphlets last year suggests a widespread tendency to express the British mind in print. --New York...
...speakers of nation-wide reputation have been secured for the occasion. They are James M. Beck of New York City and John R. Rathom of Providence, R. I. The former is probably chiefly known by his book "The Case Against Germany," which is a lawyer's digest of the propaganda that the Imperial government has carried on in the United States, as evidence 1 by the revelation of German diplomatic communications. Mr. Beck is one of the most prominent leaders of the American Bar and probably has argued more cases before the United States Supreme Court than any other contemporary...