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...living. Mr. Cohn got his material from a book which he recognizes as one of the most valuable and beautiful of U. S. documents: the Sears, Roebuck catalogue. The materials he handles are incorruptibly good, but his tireless facetiousness is tiresome. Fair enough as a 579-page guidebook and commentary, The Good Old Days is not in the same class with any one issue of the catalogue itself...
...this way the Professor produced the "Mechanical Engineer's Guidebook," the Bible of workers is this field, and "Airplane Engines," the result of his efforts during the World...
...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...