Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stalinists, they had made their decision before the Soviet Union was attacked, having discovered that there were other things they hated more than war. Among the editors who drafted the statement were mild-mannered old Professor William Heard Kilpatrick and embattled Textbook Author Harold Ordway Rugg. Declared Kilpatrick...
...when the Bolivians sought a $10,000,000 loan, the U.S. State Department turned them down. Reason: Bolivia expropriated $17,000,000 Standard Oil (N.J.) properties in 1937, and has not yet indemnified Standard. The textbook justice of the State Department's stand did not impress the Bolivians. When their Government asked its Senate for authority to negotiate with Standard, the only result was a wave of anti-U.S. sentiment that still boils in the streets...
...published an elementary textbook, First Days in the Army, for soldiers learning their ABCs. First lesson: "I ate in the mess hall. I ate and ate. I ate with the company. The company ate in the mess hall. We ate in the mess hall. ..." Other lessons stress the benefits of Army life-good food, clean barracks...
...good course. It meets twice a week at 2 o'clock, when lectures are delivered to lunch-stuffed sufferers who think a cut inadvisable. During the second half-year the same lectures are handed out again, though the course is supposed to last a whole year. There is no textbook. The lectures are often good, particularly those delivered by Mr. Davis. Most of them, however, consist either of the commonplaces necessarily known to anyone who can pass an entrance exam with 595 or else of the reading of student themes for instruction by bad example. The former could be well...
...three of the works were originally written as themes for English A, and were included in the textbook, which is used in various southern and western colleges for Freshman English courses, as samples of what should be written by students...