Word: guidebook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than willing to pump him full of biographical detail, information, gossip, anecdotes, wherever he goes. A crack journalist, he is indefatigable in collecting facts, tireless in hunting out the small details. His workmanlike book is exactly what it was meant to be-a handy, popular, political guidebook of a strife-torn continent...
...henceforth Bibles could be displayed for sale only in religious bookstores-of which there are few in Germany. In other shops, the Bible may be sold only on special order. Thus Germany safeguarded its shelves from a history of Jewish achievement, a chronicle of subversive preaching and prophesying, a guidebook to a radical world order. It also protected itself against a competitor of A. Hitler's Mein Kampf. Last month the American Bible Society revealed that sales of Holy Writ, rising steadily during six years of Naziism, reached 937,000 last year. Mein Kampf sold only 800,000 copies...
...British officer, who scouted the course which Arnold's party took fourteen years later. It is accurate on the whole with regard to details of geography, except for the fateful omission of any mention of the huge swamps around Rush and Spider Lake. Arnold, using this diary as his guidebook, almost lost his entire army in the uncharted bogs...
Europe's theologies today are predominantly those of "crisis." designed not only for catastrophes which may over take the world but for crises arising be tween men of faith and their God. Published this week was a valuable guidebook to crisis theologies - Contemporary Continental Theology- by Walter Marshall Horton, professor of theology at Oberlin College...
...romantic as its title, neither is this travel book so ponderous as the official title of the one-man expedition it tells about-the Carnegie Institution's Expedition for Study of the Earth's Magnetic Behavior. A mixture of guidebook, adventure story, anthropological study, social & political commentary, covering a 2,000-mile trip through the jungles of Venezuela and Brazil, Journey to Manaos tells next to nothing about terrestrial magnetism. Author Hanson dutifully did the job he went to do, but he records more magnetic attractions above ground than underneath...