Word: textbooks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...heard to complain: "He just sails around in some God damn boat." During his sabbaticals White also compiled (with Katharine) the enormously successful A Subtreasury of American Humor; he revised and updated the yellowing strictures of one of his Cornell English professors into The Elements of Style, a tiny textbook that has sold in the millions; he wrote three children's books, including one (Charlotte's Web, 1952) that has achieved the status of a classic...
...Celtics, winning for the 14th time in the last 15 starts and the 18th in the last 20, broke away from an 8-8 tie and put on a textbook performance in defeating Indiana for the fifth time this season and the 13th in a row in Boston Garden since April...
...classmates found the lab exciting and constructively educational. Again and again, our "textbook" predictions of the effects of certain pharmacological agents on heart rate and blood pressure proved insufficient in the live animal. Indeed, the live animal taught us the dynamic response of vitally interacting organs...
...roll nightmare of 1970, wherein Co-Directors Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell had a pop star, played by Mick Jagger, swap identities with a hood. Jagger's centerpiece number was a malevolent and mystical barrage of imagery that could be every rock-video director's tapsource and textbook. The movie did not seem so much to impact as simply to implode. The effects can still be seen, 24 hours...
...final electronic indignity came at the end of Young's textbook landing. As the orbiter's nose thudded to rest on its front landing gear, the No. 2 computer shut down again. The following day NASA announced it would not sanction the next shuttle flight, scheduled for Jan. 30, until the computer difficulties are resolved...