Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...failed to gain majority support, it was kept in mind, and when the "sense of urgency" arose last August, it was again proposed, and this time secured a majority, although not unanimous support. Particulars of the program were then worked out, and the revised Conference rules and a detailed manual on their application were approved by the Conference Faculty representatives in February...
...delight in intimate, everyday scenes, anecdotal and often merely decorative. But with the custom of copying from old masters, along with an absorption in technique for its own sake, art came perilously close to feeding upon itself. The famed three-volume painting primer called The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, compiled between 1679 and 1701 in a small Nanking house (called the Mustard Seed Garden), broke down brush strokes into 16 different categories. Beginning painters were expected to be proficient in each of them, ranging from "hemp fibers" and "ax cuts" to "horses' teeth" and "sesame seeds...
...manual, not intended for family use, is designed for physicians, first-aid stations, and particularly the 60 poison-antidote centers now being set up across the U.S. In one alphabetical section (more than 800 pages), it lists 15,000 products by their trade names, with the chemical content where the manufacturers are willing to disclose it. There is a wealth of detail on household compounds, the poisons they contain, and the antidotes. Samples...
...Israeli half of Jerusalem). Those first seven scrolls included, in addition to two versions of the book of Isaiah and a collection of apocryphal stories based on Genesis, four documents relating to the Dead Sea sect itself: 1) the Rule of the Community (also known as the Manual of Discipline); 2) a Commentary on Habakkuk, which indirectly reflects some of the sect's story because it treats the Old Testament book as prophecy concerning the Essenes' own history; 3) The War of the Sons of Light with the Sons of Darkness, which seems to be an account...
...Army assistance denied to its producers, because several scenes contained "incidents against regulations''-notably incidents in which a renegade sergeant disputes (though he does not disobey) the authority of a lieutenant. But if Men in War does not always conform to the prim letter of the Army manual, it holds to the raw spirit of combat as hard as any dogface clutches his rifle...