Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following its annual custom Phillips Brooks House is conducting a spring drive for old clothes and books during the next two weeks to provide clothes for the needy in Holland and to add books to its textbook lending library. Donations are being collected by PBH representatives in the Houses...
While the Americans meddled with the political dynamite that blew up in their faces, Peron has proceeded to consolidate his political support and, what is more dangerous, to use Argentine food as a means of intimidating its neighbors. Taking a leaf out of the Nazi textbook, the dictator has brought labor into line with promises that might be taken word-for-word from the Nuremberg harangues of 1932-33. With the centralization of the National Bank, the government now has a percentage of the credits it needs to carry on the military and naval expansion that will divert the Argentines...
...Classroom. For two former college professors, this was gamy stuff. Prentice-Hall's board chairman, Charles W. Gerstenberg, 63, and President Richard P. Ettinger, 52, were both teaching economics at New York University when they founded the company in 1913 to publish Materials of Corporation Finance, a case textbook they had prepared. Aware that Gerstenberg & Ettinger might prove too big a mouthful, they gave the firm the maiden names of their mothers...
...body and sold war bonds and stamps in the House dining halls at noontime. The traditional Freshman teas were a strong point in holdovers through the war. PBH is now gradually picking up its former peacetime function--the speakers committee, undergraduate faculty tutors, the social service committee, and the textbook loan library...
...London last week a modest Scotsman tucked away the symbol of his monarch's deepest gratitude: the Knight Commander's cross of the Royal Victorian Order. Then he went back to work on his ponderous, four-volume Textbook of Ophthalmology...