Word: manual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work when he was a boy. He taught grammar and high school, worked in a steel mill, rolled coal and ashes in a power plant to buy food during his first half-year at the State University. Then he got a job running a dining hall, thankfully gave up manual labor for life. But he still worked hard, made the track team and graduated with honors, went on to three years at Harvard Law School...
Professor Bott borrowed the book, found it just the ticket. He had it photostated, translated by Major Velyien Ewart Henderson, and last week the University handed out the enemy's helpful manual to members of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Its prime points...
Despite the undercurrent of seriousness and concern occasioned by the war crisis in Europe, the forty-third annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs got under way with a generally festive spirit, and the hilarious manual of Dr. Ralph S. Foss '03 set the tone for the gathering from the start...
More than thirty members of the Harvard faculty, headed by President Conant, will be on hand as a link between Widener Library and the Great White Way. Dr. Foss's manual has complete instructions as to how to handle these lofty representatives of Cambridge: "Do not get two professors together in the same crowd. They may sing. Merge all titles into 'Doctor.' Don't keep them up after 2 a.m. They ned time to organize their material for the next day's symposium...
After the symposium the old guard will retire to the Harvard Club of New York to be entertained by celebrities of the stage and screen. The manual suggests for occasions like this the rule: "If you're on the wagon, lean...