Word: books
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come up in the world and book money is beer money. And you're sharing library books with the big kids. Face another harsh reality: Everybody at this school, being so smart and all, can, believe it or not, recognize your handwriting. Which means that when they check out that book on Mating Habits of the Lower Primates, they read every insipid thing you scrawled, and they still snicker every time they pass by in the yard. You've become something of a school-wide joke; you're the fool who scribbled "symbolism," "why?" and "interesting" on every page...
...while Gaedel never again appeared in a game, he went down in the Guiness Book of World Records as the shortest person ever to play in the major leagues. His picture is surely somewhere in Cooperstown...
...author of one book and numerous articles and papers on Chinese international relations...
Johnston is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford and is working on his second book, which will test models of socialization in Chinese arms control and international environment policies...
...interest in academics came at an early age. At the age of 10, Kety was bedridden after a car accident. His parents gave him the 12-volume Book of Knowledge to read; Kety read it cover-to-cover...