Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...substitute for its temporarily discontinued textbook-lending service, Phillips Brooks House inaugurated a direct from-seller-to-buyer book exchange yesterday...
They belonged to a new profession, the careerists of absolute power. They had the pursuit of power worked out like a textbook on surgery, and they followed it with a surgeon's icy concentration. This did not mean that they were infallible; they often blundered. But they never panicked, they never acted on impulse, and they never relented...
When we printed our first survey in May, 1949, it covered 12 pages and described 40 cases in 19 states and the District of Columbia. This year we have found 32 cases. They deal with the dismissal of professors, the banning of speakers, anti-"subversive" committees, legislative actions, textbook checks, and loyalty oaths...
...regional attorney (Montana, Wyoming and Colorado) for the Resettlement Administration. Brannan, the city boy, knew little or nothing about farming; he had only milked some cows and gathered a few eggs in summertime on a cousin's farm. But he traveled the droughtlands by day, traveled the textbook maze of farm economics by night, learning to talk the farmer's language, and the bureaucrat...
...department feels that it has something special to offer in the field of history because it can present to the student actual works from a period under study, rather than mere textbook-reading. The work in most courses, nevertheless, calls for the student to describe and analyze works of art and to comment on them as examples of a particular period or trend...