Word: hammett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From there, scribbling students take over. And the boys who count the receipts at Hammett's--if not the graders--are hoping that undergraduates will get a chance to write...
Each year Harvard orders about 353,000 exam books from Hammett's at $17-$30 a 1,000. Hammett's would just as well encourage writing on one side of the page and more extensive answers to essay questions...
...junior executive at the school supplies firm recalls that a Harvard undergraduate wrote him a few years ago complaining that he could have passed the examination had Hammett's been nice enough to manufacture larger blue books. The boys in the front office still chuckle over that...
...Harvard's yearly supply, 310,000 books are printed "with revisions," which is Hammett Talk for the memorable salutation...
About now--as in January--the stock of exam books at the Hammett factory is quite low. Not only are employees kept busy rebuilding the inventory, but they also publish thousands of school diplomas in May (not Harvard...