Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flower gardens, stopped to peer at the library's $50,000 Gutenberg Bible, and climbed the art gallery's marble stairs to take whispered popularity polls among the portraits. To San Marino each year come scholars to dig through treasures that range from the Ellesmere Chaucer manuscript (best text of the Canterbury Tales) to the manuscript of Stevenson's Kidnapped...
Wifely curiosity soon got the better of Harriet. One night, she opened Desmond's briefcase and found a manuscript signed with his name. "With reference to Bureaux Instruction," she read, "... I appreciate the vital . . . importance to Soviet security of acquiring the details of Anglo-American general strategy without delay. ... I have taken steps to ensure [my wife's] ignorance and, in view of her youth and political illiteracy, it is impossible for her to entertain the smallest suspicions. . . . [But] I suggest that the method of communicating by blank postcard should be discontinued...
Heroes in Common. Then Marshall put aside his manuscript and really laid it on the line. With an obvious reference to Torres Bodet, he said quietly: "I feel that what has already been said, and I suppose is yet to be said, refers ... to my country. ... I have also the feeling that there is very limited understanding of the tremendous responsibilities and tremendous burdens . . . the people of my country have undertaken . . . and that you profit by it as much...
...Tilghman, Jr., Production Manager of the Trade Department of the Houghton Mifflin Company pointed out that a great many steps lie between the acceptance of a manuscript and the final appearance of the book. Production work requires a great deal of technical experience which is best acquired by starting in a printing plant, he concluded...
...managing editor of Good Housekeeping advises, "If you write for your own amusement, you can be as dismal as you choose, but the public continues to prefer entertainment to morbidity . . . I often feel that if I come across one more trauma or psycho-analyst's couch in a manuscript, I will become a manic-depressive and scream...