Word: pamphlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City's Board of Education issued a special pamphlet. A parent, the pamphlet said, should explain to a child that school would not be so bad. "Tell him ... he will draw, sing, play games . . . He will make many new friends . . . School will be an enjoyable . . . experience...
...extremely tough time of it. A search of the Library of Congress' extensive catalogues showed that one G. Crosley had had a book, of poems published in 1905 (when Chambers was four years old) and one G. E. Crosley, a medical doctor, had written a pamphlet on ultraviolet light in 1936. There was no record of a "George Crosley" having broken into print any time, anywhere during Chambers' lifetime...
Found: $250,000. John Jacobs' first reform was to throw out thousands of obsolete books that were jamming his shelves (sample: a 1915 pamphlet on The Care of Teeth), and he soon had gotten rid of more books than he added. He streamlined every branch, put a new microfilm filing system into the main building, built new reading rooms, demanded-and got-a tripled library budget. He found a deposit of $250,000 that had been willed to the library and never used. He built two new branch libraries, one of them the first to be built...
...TIME, July 12), the world got a tantalizing intimation that conflicting personal and national interests can be stronger than Marxist theories as enforced by the Kremlin. Last week, historic documents on the Tito-Stalin conflict became available. Some hours after Andrei Vishinsky arrived in Belgrade for the Danube conference, pamphlets brought by his staff from Russia were shoved into Belgrade mailboxes, slipped under doors at night. They contained three letters from Moscow to Tito, written months before the public break. Last week, the Yugoslav Communist Party prepared to distribute a pamphlet containing Tito's replies. As few other documents...
They are often interrupted, and the questions are apt to be tough ones. The museum last week had on sale an intriguing pamphlet entitled The Questioning Public, which told something of what the docents are up against...