Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Observers saw in this candid, concise, lucid statement one more proof that Count Volpi epitomizes the best type of self-made Italian business man. Sprung from an old but untitled Venetian family, he was obliged when a boy to earn his living by manual labor. Came an opening in the Levantine shipping trade, and he plunged into a career during which he built up a great chain of trading establishments between Italy and the Near East. Rich, potent, he turned from business to devote himself brilliantly to affairs of state. Premier Giolitti entrusted to him the negotiation of the peace...
...source of august discord. Already 100,000 copies have been sold, for the volume is the new Alternative Prayer Book of the Church of England (TIME, Feb. 21), recently approved by the Church Assembly, and submitted to the House of Lords last week. So important loomed this revised manual of prayer, that the Lords Spiritual and Temporal assembled in greater numbers than at any time since the World War. The four benches assigned to bishops towered with stiff regalia. Then up rose, to put the motion, the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate...
...thorough treatise on contraceptives is Dr. Marie Carmichael Stopes' Contraception, Its Theory, History and Practice: a Manual for the Medical & Legal Professions & All Social Workers. But only doctors and lawyers can lawfully buy it. (This is the case, also, with most of Havelock Ellis' books...
...student who has spent either last summer or some previous time at some form of manual labor is eligible to attend this conference. Those interested should apply for admission on special blanks provided for the purpose and obtainable at the Phillips Brooks House. Candidates should state their industrial experience by answering the questions printed on the application blanks, which must be in the hands of James Myers, 105 East 22d Street, New York City, by ctober 20. Delegates will be chosen on the basis of their experience as participant observers in industry...
...read of the British Battalion Commander who led his gallant boys to victory by dribbling a soccer ball over No Man's Land. So frequently was this astounding fruitery perpetrated that one might reasonably have been lead to believe it to have been a maneuver included in the Field Manual. All these preposterous and gaudy fabrications being based, of course, on the supposition that the American reading public was as gullible and popeyed as the late lamented Walter Hines Page. Which...