Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three's a Crowd," a short story by Marvin A. Kohn '42, has been included in the revision of "Modern Composition and Rhetoric," a textbook written by Henry F. Thoma, teaching fellow in English...
Four months ago Clyde R. Hoey, then Governor, and fellow board members adopted the Warren book, rejecting a more scholarly work written by Professors A. R. Newsome and Hugh T. Lefler, of the University of North Carolina, and recommended by the State Textbook Commi sion (educators...
...Murrow's broadcasts, with their reassuring salutation, "This is London." Ed Murrow is still "over there," but CBS has transcribed all of his broadcasts, and the best of them are here published in book form. "This is London," with its excellent commentary by Elmer Davis, is practically a textbook on London's history in the last year and a half. But it is doubtfull that a more readable and engrossing textbook has ever been written...
When Morris Sheppard was a schoolboy in Wheatville, Tex., he studied physiology. One illustration in the class textbook was a study of a drunkard's stomach, done in passionate colors. He never got over it, and last week he died a teetotaler...
...Merwin K. Hart, Elizabeth Dilling (The Red Network), Hearst Columnist B. C. Forbes, American Legionnaire 0. K. Armstrong, Journalist George E. Sokolsky. He quotes Hart: "If you find any organization containing the word 'democracy,' it is probably . . . affiliated with the Communist Party." More intriguing than the textbook battle is Professor Rugg's account of the rise of U. S. "frontier thinkers." A descendant of a Minute Man who fought at Lexington and Concord, Harold Rugg studied civil engineering at Dartmouth, spiked rails in the Middle West, taught at University of Illinois and University of Chicago, classified Army...