Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strikes knifed through the nation's network of 22 million telephones last week. In 44 states, long distance and overseas service was paralyzed. In many a city or town which still has manual phones, local calls were spotty or completely cut off.* Executives and clerical workers, trying to man the switchboards (see cut), fell hopelessly behind the blinking lights...
...novices among them, Frank Harper's Skiing for the Millions (Longmans Green; $3) is valuable equipment. The German-born son of an American newspaperman, Author Harper (White Maneuvers, Military Ski Manual) learned his skiing in Switzerland, where 20% of the people own skis. His latest book flavors ski instruction with a garrulous skimeister's anecdotes, opinions, sudden poetic bursts. With infectious enthusiasm he inveighs against lazy American ski habits (downhill runs only, uphill rides in chair lifts, hot buttered rum in large quantity). Two Harperisms...
...plans to ask this country for a loan of three to five billion dollars to help England get back on its feet. Would you approve or disapprove . . . such a loan?" British Laborites were particularly hurt to find that, while only 55% of business and professional men were opposed, U.S. manual workers rejected the loan idea by more than...
...Huxley plainly intended his new book to be neither a show piece of erudition nor a collection of wise old sayings and bright young remarks. Instead, he designed it as a manual of man's relationship to God, as stated by certain saints and mystics. How successfully this perennial philosophy gets across to the reader depends largely on the reader...
During the three days of their fourth retreat last week, they followed "a careful pattern of devotion," manual work, discussion and meditation. In the mornings they went to the mountaintop to chop trees and work on their new Kirkridge Lodge, of modern design. Afternoons were spent discussing social problems and sharing "faith-building" experiences. In the evenings, after supper on long wooden tables, they met by the hearth for devotions and evening prayer, after which no body spoke until work time next...