Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faculty of the Agricultural College he rated high. His Farm Management has been a textbook in many an agricultural school since 1914. After the War he turned his attention particularly to the disastrous problem of farming and depression. With his younger associate, Professor Frank Ashmore Pearson, he worked out an immense number of statistics to show that the thing which controls price levels, which periodically sends farm prices tobogganing and puts farmers out of business, is the value of gold...
...English 22 will enjoy this comedy because it shows what a persistently diligent young prospective playwright can do if he puts his mind to it. There is something scholarly about the play; something reminiscent of a textbook of modern drama; of a literary era not yet ready to emerge from the ground into which it was gratefully run before the end of the last decade...
...textbook used has been Kroeber and Waterman's "Source Book in Anthropology," with some work in Professor Tozzer's "Social Origins and Social Continuities." There are bi-weekly tests covering the reading and the material in the lectures is taken care of at November, Mid-years and Finals. Numerous slides are shown in the lectures and there are walks through the Museum with a section-man to correlate Professor Tozzer's lectures and the exhibits...
...Turkey's swart Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha. Having forbidden public reading of the Koran in Arabic, decreed substitution of the Latin alphabet for the old Arabic and given Turkey a new calendar, Dictator Kemal lately turned to history as taught in the schools. He caused an official textbook to be prepared for cheap and universal circulation. The first volume tells how Turkey passed through the Old Stone Age 5,000 years before Wrestern Europe. The famed Amazons were Turkish women. The early Chinese dynasties, the Indo-European Hindus, the Etruscans, Trojans and Cretans were really of Turkish origin...
...their books, promptly made him treasurer. In 1911 he went to Studebaker in the same capacity, was soon jumped to president of the company which Harry and Clement Studebaker, wagon makers, had founded in 1852. President Erskine rode the 1921 deflation unharmed, a managerial feat cited in many a textbook. And in this depression President Erskine made money until 1932. Then he tried to swing the biggest motor merger of the year- purchase of White Motor Co. (trucks). Studebaker borrowed to finance the deal, but a few White stockholders prevented Studebaker from taking title to the assets. Studebaker found itself...