Word: pamphlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Harvard will not be forced to raise its enrollment limits in order to provide facilities for all veterans who have already been accepted in the College and all those who will be admitted under the revised standards recently announced by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in its pamphlet, "What About Harvard...
...general, the pamphlet advises, a man must: 1) act as if he hated to be ill, 2) stick to one set of symptoms, 3) "Don't tell the doctor too much!" Recipes for twelve diseases follow. Samples: ¶ "Artificial skin inflammation, . . . Take three times daily . . . one teaspoonful of a 10% solution of iodine potassium in a glass of water . . . until a scarlet-like affection of the skin results. . . . Iodine potassium is a completely harmless medicine...
...father, the Reverend Walter E. Smith, published a pamphlet on proportional representation. Dodgson wrote him about this, sending a copy of Suggestions as to the Best Method of Taking Votes Where More Than Two Issues Are To Be Voted On. My father replied, pointing out that by Dodgson's method, in certain circumstances, nobody would be elected...
Bishop De Wolfe's doctrinal dander rose when the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America and the Protestant Council of New York City distributed 300,000 copies of a pamphlet containing the Rockefeller speech. In a pastoral letter published in the Episcopal weekly, The Living Church, he charged that the Rockefeller statements "declare that baptism is unnecessary to church membership and that the Lord's Supper, although termed 'a sacrament,' is a symbol whose beauty is not always expedient. . . . The New Testament, the Creed and the agelong practice of the church do not concur...
...streamlined taradiddles. Seized one day with a desire to debunk the false prophets, Mullikin & Hand planned a reductio ad absurdum, their own radar-electronic "kitchen of tomorrow," and showed a sketch of it to their boss. Schaible was so tickled that it rounded out the idea in a burlesque pamphlet, sent it out as direct-mail advertising. By last week, requests for the pamphlet were running ahead of the printers...