Word: manual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morgue clerk while studying at Columbia's School of Journalism ('24). He has been on the Times news staff for 23 years, for the past two years as assistant night managing editor. In his spare time, Garst wrote (with Timesman Ted Bernstein) a widely used manual on copyreading, Headlines and Deadlines, and taught journalism at Columbia...
...cookbook, 100 to Dinner (University of Toronto Press; $3.50), was an up-dater of a manual put together for service kitchens during the war, and it was badly needed. Raising the standard of Ontario resort cooking even to that of an army mess was a major operation. "Ontario," quipped a visitor to Toronto, "is as conservative gastronomically as it is politically. Eating is a dull pastime indeed, something to have and to have done with...
Professor Giedion is not the sort of crank who advocates a return to 100% manual labor. But he believes that if man cannot protect himself from the emotionless "collectivism" of the machine, "future generations will perhaps designate this period as one of mechanized barbarism, the most repulsive barbarism...
...down and were pretty sure they weren't accomplishing a thing. Savage changed all that. He did it by singling out the incompetents and cowards by name, leading the group on most of the missions. If his discipline and briefings read like a cross between any army manual and a football pep talk, many a combat man will remember that just such near-Rover Boy leadership paid off in the clutch...
...final scene, the children raise frank questions about the animated film, which the teacher answers. The movie ends on an intentionally abrupt note, to suggest that there are other questions left unasked and unanswered. Professor Beck has prepared a classroom manual to get the Oregon teachers past the toughest questions...