Word: notebook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin's municipal elections Oct. 20. Sedists (as Berliners have begun to call SEDers) personally took credit for such timely Russian favors as last week's distribution of cigarets and liquor to Berliners, and the special allotment of clothing and shoes to 60,000 children. SED distributed notebooks to children with the inscription: "Instead of using this paper for a campaign pamphlet, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany . . . gives you, dear Berlin child, this notebook. Study diligently and thus make your parents happy. Signed...
...insulin days, diabetics had two alternatives: eat well and die tomorrow, or live on a starvation diet and die by inches. Then one day in 1920 Frederick Banting, a young research M.D. at the University of Toronto, wrote in his notebook: "Tie off pancreatic duct of dogs. Wait six to eight weeks. . . . Remove residue and extract." Months later, Banting and Charles Best, a medical student assisting him, announced the isolation of insulin, the sugar-controlling hormone of the pancreas that gives diabetics-people whose bodies cannot use up their sugar intake-a new lease on life...
...There she breakfasts, reads the papers (including the Journal-American, to see, as she says, what her husband has snitched from her column), pecks out her column. In midafternoon, she starts a round of cocktail parties (her drink: orange juice) and dinners. At these gatherings she caches her notebook in the ladies' room, makes frequent trips there to jot down the items she overhears. By 1 a.m. she is back in bed. Once a week she sees her husband, "Ghighi." They meet in New York because, says Bootsie, "He doesn't like Washington any more . . . he doesn...
Then he and Anderson headed east. Behind them the trucks continued to roll towards the railroads. In Clint Anderson's notebook were written UNRRA's hopes-delivery in the next three weeks of 110,000,000 bushels of wheat from the plateaus and prairies of Minnesota, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, Washington, Oregon. At last, the wheat was rolling...
Extracurricular Activity. In Madison, Wis., veteran-on-campus David Stimple brought his baby to class because his wife was sick, had note-taking trouble when baby insisted on 1) sitting on his notebook, 2) shouting down the professor...