Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protege of a Lower East Side saloonkeeper turned political boss; yet he managed to stay clear of the Tammany odor. When he spoke on government to a distinguished group of scholars at Harvard, one professor remarked: "If I had a transcript of that speech, I would have the greatest textbook on civics ever written...
...Penn undergraduate is not especially concerned with his courses, nor is he generally stimulated by the light fare of one textbook, few papers, and perhaps no more than 90 pages of reading per week that seems typical. The general attitude was aptly described by Pennsylvania's President, Gaylord P. Harnwell, who said...
Sixty two and a half said new members were needed to man "the free textbook liberry for the poor kids...
...when he won his first grand victory, the Battle of Blenheim (1704). By that age "Wellington had won his last and Napoleon was dead," notes Author Rowse. To the warfare of his time-a static business of formal sieges, sedate marches and textbook battles-Churchill brought a degree of speed, flexibility and dash that horrified friends and foes. After Blenheim, he fought nine more campaigns, won nine more major battles...
...even if the latter day Puseys can not trace their family tree, an accurate description of the manor's history and the activities of some men who lived there is contained in Law School textbook by Professors Casner and Leach entitled "Cases and Texts on Property." The books notes that the Puseys performed their outstanding feat by remaining in control of the family manor for nearly 900 years, surviving the War of the Roses and finally World War I only to be ruined by the depression in 1933. As Professors Casner and Leach note with grim efficiency, "Pusey manor...