Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long as I was in I might as well get the best, however little that might be." He thought he had "flunked gloriously": but on July 1, 1901, Sergeant Krueger received his commission as a second lieutenant. Then he began to live & breathe army. He read every military textbook he could find: strategy, tactics, infantry operations, cavalry, artillery, the techniques of river crossings...
Measure of Success. No airman had ever contended that air power alone could stop an offensive, even in perfect weather. But the destruction of those fog-shrouded Nazi tanks could stand as a textbook example of tactical air power soundly applied under correct air-force doctrine...
...over by a schoolteacher-bespectacled, balding Maxwell Nurnberg. He explains the origins of words, dramatizes the English language and its common mistreatment, and reports in relaxed English, the outstanding errors of the week. To listeners whose contributions he uses, he sends $5 and a copy of his popularized English textbook.* To the people who made the errors, he sends the textbook alone...
Blakiston, bought last June by Doubleday, Boran, was an exceptional buy. It has been official publisher for the American Red Cross for almost 40 years. After Pearl Harbor it printed the Red Cross textbook at the rate of 1,000,000 a month, consuming 700,000 Ibs. of paper a month for them in 1942. And 1942 became the base year for current paper quotas...
With his excellent textbook on airplane photography, Lt. Col. James W. Bagley, Lecturer in airplane photography, has made a decided contribution to the success of Raisz's "plane's-eye" cartography. Widely used, its significance has been equalled by his fine-lens camera, and added to the work of Raisz and William K. Coburn, assistant in Geographical Exploration, it represents an important scientific effort toward victory. Coburn is noteworthy for work with short-wave radio and trial balloons...