Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the wireless message and the Commander's message came the battle. Firing opened at 7,000 yards, the two fleets steaming in parallel columns like a classic exercise in an Annapolis textbook. In three quarters of an hour the leading Russian ships were out of action and Admiral Rozhestvensky gravely wounded. After nightfall when the Russian fleet was in hopeless disorder, the Japanese torpedo boats struck...
...plans for the annual drive for textbooks for the Phillips Brooks House Textbook Loan Library will swing into action next Tuesday, the first day of Final Examinations, it was announced yesterday. This year men will be posted at all the examination place to invite students to donate their no longer needs books to the On Library...
...Textbook Loan Library, which lends textbooks to needy students for a nominal sum, will be directed by G. Hinckley Porter '35. The theory behind this drive is that people will be so glad to get rid of their books immediately after taking their examinations that they will gladly present them to the Library representative at the examination place. Books are greatly needed to replenish the waning supply now available at Phillips Brooks, House, since the demand for them has been increasing annually...
...included as a marketing cost; that even harmless trade claims should be prohibited; and that all advertisements should be strictly factual. . . . We are informed that a recently published book by Dr. Tugwell and Howard C. Hill entitled Our Economic Society is proposed to be used as an economic textbook in social science classes for the purpose of implanting anti-advertising propaganda in the adolescent mind...
With one notable exception the reading is good. Unfortunately, the exception is the textbook used in the course, Hockett. A great deal of the evil of having a poor textbook is, however, removed by the thoroughness of Professor Merk's lectures. With this one exception, History 5a accomplishes in very commendable fashion its task of racing through the nation's history...