Word: burnshaw
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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Like many another student of languages, Publisher Stanley Burnshaw was tired of keeping his place in the front of a textbook while he hunted up definitions in the back. Last week his Dryden Press published a Spanish text, Paisaje y Hombres de América, designed to do away with all the fussing...
...printing text at the top of the page and vocabulary at the bottom, then cutting a quarter-inch trough in between, Burnshaw had created two books with one binding, in a "Dutch door" arrangement. The student can look up words in the free-swinging pages of the dictionary below without turning a page in the text above. Burnshaw thinks his invention ranks with "the tip on the shoelace...
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