Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prosser has retained Professor Edmund M. Morgan, Harvard's expert on evidence, to defend him. Poindexter will have six other students and two recent Harvard Law School graduates among his battery of legal talent. In the preliminary pleadings, Plaintiff Poindexter cited as one of his legal authorities a textbook known as Prosser on Torts. Pooh-poohed Defendant Prosser: "A very inadequate book I once wrote...
Casual & Decent. The 20-minute film opens in the living room of a respectable, middle-class family. Opening his textbook to the picture of a naked Indian, the boy asks his father why savages didn't wear clothes while civilized people do. That starts a family bull-session about sex, to make the audience realize that sex can be casually and decently discussed...
...since Gone With the Wind had booksellers seen anything like it. Out less than two months, it had already sold 200,000 copies. Its publisher, Philadelphia's W. B. Saunders Co., a staid old medical-and-textbook house, kept two presses running steadily to stay abreast of the demand...
...textbook series distributed to schools in the Russian zone...
Phillips Brooks House reopened its textbook library, where 25 cents will rent anything from "Frau Sorge" to "Symbolic Logic." The books, all second-hand, are housed on the third floor...