Word: handbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year in the corresponding period 1300 visitors of all ages came to PBH parlor. This year a corresponding number are coming with prospective 1941 men leaving in possession of the new, revised, and all inclusive vest pocket Harvard Handbook...
...good sailor, was happy last week in the knowledge that many an American sailor would be thumbing a pocket-sized blue book compiled under her direction, would be a wiser-sailor for having done so. The book is the sixth edition of The Seamen's Handbook for Shore Leave, distributed free to men in the American Merchant Marine and costing 50? to other interested parties. It lists 440 world ports with brief facts about their cheaper hotels, venereal clinics, dentists, laundries, amusements, and a valuable department called Caution. Samples...
...Seamen's Handbook is published by the American Merchant Marine Library Assn., which also sends magazines and books to men at sea. It is financed by Mrs. Howard, president of the association, and others including Paul D. Cravath, William Mellon, Clark H. Minor, Arthur V. Davis, Dr. Thomas Barbour...
...pious Jews for thousands of years, divorce has simply meant compliance with God's rule as laid down in His theocratic handbook, Deuteronomy (24:1): When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it cometh to pass, if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house. . . . Today, as in ancient times, a good Orthodox Jew or his agent obtains a religious divorce by handing his wife...
...encyclopedia" is expected to be of use to weather scientists in their predictions and in research on origins of various climatic phenomena. Prepared largely by Charles F. Brooks '11, director of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, the survey has been published as part of a massive German handbook of climatology which upon completion will present the important weather facts of the whole world...