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Word: handbooks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took the stand to testify that the information collected had indeed been passed on to the agents of Soviet Russia. As precisely and matter-of-factly as a high-school teacher explaining a problem in geometry, he laid out an account of his adventures that could serve as a handbook for espionage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: My Friend, Yakovlev | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

Freshmen are given a handbook which advises, "It isn't Good Idea to go out with an unknown man who simply calls up and asks for a date . . . As for the man who sits next to you in Psychology, well, you have eyes, haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wanna Know All About Annex? This Is From Horse's Mouth | 3/16/1951 | See Source »

...eight big policy wheels in the Negro section of Chicago netted $1,000,000 a year. A gambling casino in New Jersey cleared $255,271 in a good year, one in Florida, $205,000. Tony Giz-zo, a mobster in Kansas City, admitted that his little newsstand handbook netted him more than $100,000 a year. In all, the committee estimated "conservatively," $20 billion changes hands every year in the U.S. in the big business of illegal gambling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: It Pays to Organize | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...Seraphic Secretaries of America is an organization of 87 women who shine in the reflected glory of their bosses each one tops in his field.* This week the Seraphs are shining in bookstores as the expert advisers on the Complete Secretary's Handbook (Prentice-Hall; $4.75) by ex-Secretaries Lillian Doris and Besse May Miller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Working Girl's Friend | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...page package of facts ranging from Abbot (how to introduce and refer to)" to "Zones (parcel post)," the handbook may prove to be the best friend the working girl has ever had. It tells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Working Girl's Friend | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

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