Word: manual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that people came so low but we heard that some of the officers' memo changes were stolen. And while we are on the subject of publications there is the remark made in class the other day by an exasperated, yet facetious student to the effect: "That item in the Manual doesn't make sense and I think it should be crossed out." On that basis, many items in many publications would fall by the wayside...
Heading the Navy's new course in woodcraft is Lieut. George D. Kepler, onetime professional guide in Pennsylvania. Assisting him are Ensigns Frank and John Craighead, authors of the manual for the course, Living off Land & Sea. At 27, the Craighead twins are already authorities on wild life. (One book they wrote on falconry brought them an invitation from a maharaja to be his guests. They spent nine months in India...
...worse killer than cancer, high blood pressure each year causes the death of countless thousands of its estimated 6,000,000 U.S. victims. Last week a reassuring new manual for laymen reported that modern medicine can do much to tame the disease. Written by able specialist Dr. Irvine Heinly Page of Indianapolis this extraordinarily readable book (Hypertension; Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Ill.; $1.50) is calculated to calm most panicky patients...
...right." Thousands of soldiers in Major General Charles H. Corlett's command, arriving in the Aleutians for the occupation of Kiska, blinked with amazement at getting such apparently meek & modest talk from an Army publication. Reading on in the special 50-page pamphlet entitled Soldiers' Manual (and subtitled Every Man His Own Valet-Every Foxhole a Suite at the Waldorf}, they found some of the best common-sense advice yet gathered for men in this...
Author of the manual is Captain Roy L. Atteberry, a former enlisted man from Dallas, who got an appointment to West Point, was graduated in 1941. Captain Atteberry remembered all he had learned in his year in Alaska, carefully analyzed all the reports of what went wrong in Attu, then wrote his handbook. Some conclusions: Warriors' Habits. "For some reason it seems that mud and water and war always go together, so since the days of the Axe, stone, M I, the doughfoot has always had a rough time with his wet feet...