Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Higginbottom's missionary labors have been recognized. Princeton invented the degree of Doctor of Philanthropy for him; the British Government decorated him four times; the Presbyterian Church made him its moderator in 1939. Last week he planned to write an agricultural textbook for Indians and to become an American citizen. Said he: "I've just never had five years [necessary to become a citizen] I could spare...
...private Manhattan practice on the side. Resoundingly successful in her profession, she has met less success at the poker table and was baffled in the case of Bridget, a ten-year-old Briton whom she took in during the blitz. Bridget, though a nice child, proved many child-care textbook theories wrong, taught the child expert a good deal about children...
...Third's other armored divisions challenge the 4th's dash and sometimes perform feats that would be textbook nightmares. Two Patton armored divisions once crossed each other at a right angle road junction in the midst of combat, but only the Germans were confused. Patton's forces have run right off their tactical maps, and have had advanced maps, gasoline and ammunition parachuted to them (see SCIENCE...
...world's tight trade combinations, the British-controlled diamond cartel is the best textbook example of how to control production and fix prices. U.S. businessmen have long been aware that if this cartel could be splintered, diamonds might become cheap enough to: 1) weigh down their wives' fingers; 2) drastically cut the cost of diamond drills, grinding wheels and other industrial tools. Impressed by these facts, Attorney General Francis Biddle last week set out to break up the cartel...
...books, all such political mind-molders have been replaced with references to soil, crops, etc. But the Subcommission left the really tough job of Axis textbook revision still to be done. Lacking time to provide new chapters explaining why Fascism is bad and democracy good, it simply deleted all references to political and social events after World...