Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great historical importance, for it fixed the French light opera style for a hundred years. It was the chief stylistic source for the Offenbach comic operas, as well as for the Gilbert & Sullivan ones. But Goldovsky has proven to anyone's satisfaction that it is more than a textbook "influence," that it is an eminently viable stage work today and does not merit the obscurity into which it has fallen, especially when the almost ubiquitous Barber of Seville is not a whit better...
...undergraduate's plan to form a used textbook agency failed yesterday to win support from the Harvard Student Agencies, because of a possible conflict with bookstores in the Square...
...that reason," he emphasized, "the HSA will not cooperate with the undergraduate who plans to form the textbook agency. Of course, he may, if he wishes, go ahead without our help...
Burke said that bookstores in the Square were overwhelmingly opposed to the idea of such an agency. However, he conceded that undergraduates would like a student textbook agency "because it would divert business from local stores, and force them to raise their prices for used books...
...that easy. Although USIS officials had pronounced him fluent in English, Abdie would have a long way to go to hold his own with U.S. prep schoolers. He was put through every textbook in the USIS language center, and when he was officially awarded the scholarship in April, he began taking special lessons with the wife of Consul General Henry H. Ford. Consul Robert Sherwood took him home to play with his two boys, aged 7 and 11. Soon Abdie replaced salaam with...