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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seventh-there is the school edition, a special 32-page issue for the hundreds of classrooms where TIME is used each week as the textbook in current affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 10, 1943 | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...Phillips Brooks House Committee, similar in function to its textbook loan library but dealing instead with works of art, has recently been established. The idea for the new committee was conceived by Richard N. Swift '44, president...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Establishes Loan Library of Art Works | 3/23/1943 | See Source »

According to Dr. Marshall's textbook on pneumonia, there are "relatively few recoveries" among those above the age of 60, "and indeed it kills so quickly and mercifully that it has been called the 'old man's friend.'" As usual, Winston Churchill scorned the ordinary, weathered the crisis and last week was pronounced out of danger. A bulletin on the state of his health added that the Prime Minister had been allowed to have his first cigar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Winnie the Patient | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

While harrassed Freshmen were trying to concentrate on "Five Kinds of Writing," a hallowed textbook in a hallowed course, they were interrupted by a solemn-faced proctor who announced "in case of air raid, students may have five extra minutes for the examination." The startled Yardlings then returned to "Five Kinds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wars Come and Wars Go: English A Goes On Forever | 1/22/1943 | See Source »

...hour, Ufford surprised the students by announcing that the author of the Physics B textbook, Professor John A. Eldredge of Iowa University, had sent him a list of definitions. A groan from the audience followed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Infamous Definitions snub Electricity's Honorable Erg | 12/3/1942 | See Source »

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