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That is the Baruch thesis-and now Henderson's text, with 1941 modifications -but the U.S. never saw its full effect in World War I because the Armistice came first. Shoes were reduced to two types and to black, white, tan. Manufacture of pleasure automobiles was to cease. Housing had stopped dead. In another year the whole civil population would have been clothed in a cheap but serviceable sort of uniform. Flaps from pockets would have disappeared. At Alice Longworth's recommendation, steel had been taken out of women's corsets. There were gasless, meatless, sugarless, fuelless...
Occasion of the drive is the first authorized Catholic English-language revision of Holy Writ since 1749, a simplified text which omits inverted phrases and archaic word forms, changes "tidings" to "news," "concupiscence" to "lust," "wilderness" to "desert," "bier" to "stretcher." Even the words of the sign of the cross, with which every Roman Catholic begins and ends his prayers, have been changed-the Holy Ghost is now called the Holy Spirit. Typical modernization: Matthew XIll's reference to Christ's miracle-working powers from "Whence therefore hath he all these things," to "Then where...
...only is the text simplified but (as in The Bible Designed to Be Read as Living Literature) it is arranged in paragraphs instead of numbered verses. Poems are printed as poems, letters as letters...
Paul J. Sachs, to prepare for publication two volumes (one a text and the other plates) of the American and English Schools of "Drawings in the Fogg Museum...
James R. Brewster, for the preparation of an experimental text to be tested in courses in Audio-Visual Aids at Harvard and Boston University, such text to be provided with a sufficient number of charts, drawings and illustrations to avoid the usual misunderstandings...