Word: handbook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whole structure of [academic] rules to see which ones are inexplicable or inconsistent." Verba says the "full package of proposals" he will eventually present will likely address topics such as honors requirements, make-up exams, regulations for adding and dropping courses, and other issues that turn up in the Handbook of College Rules...
Confirmed extraterrestrials are a diverse group. John Flynn, a hospital security guard who lives in Brooklyn, has a homemade job he built out of a handbook and $7,500 worth of parts. Record and Movie Producer Lou Adler has a rather more elaborate installation out in Malibu. Heavyweight Champ Larry Holmes has one at his digs in Easton...
Years before alligator shirts covered every second American torso, long before artifacts of Ivy League style were mass-merchandised, before anyone dreamed of writing an "official handbook," Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel was the premier public place for preppies. Within its vaulting rococo spaces, numberless Princeton boys leered at an endless parade of Vassar girls, while Dartmouth seniors, a little tight, chatted up Smithies. Aging doughboys staggered out of regimental reunions singing. The bubbliness was swell and incessant. Scott Fitzgerald and J.D. Salinger, writing for and about two generations of preppies, each dragged characters through the gilded Palm Court, under...
...Scout handbook issued in 1972 emphasized getting along in cities-and never once mentioned campfires. With its purpose obscured, the Scouts lost 2 million members over a six-year period. Last year a new handbook was published, restating the founder's enthusiasm for the outdoors. Membership began to grow again, and this year's jamboree was seen as an opportunity to show the world that Scouting was back where it belonged, under the stars...
...runaway success of The Official Preppy Handbook (more than 1 million copies sold) proved that the American preppie is a marketable commodity. Now three young men from the suburbs around Louisville are turning the prep school image into a profitable business...