Word: secondhand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Microscopic Success. Both school boards set to work. King George bought a microscope for the Negro Training School, installed a new pump. It collected some 2,000 secondhand books for the library, bought some typewriters and added a stenography course...
...N.A.A.C.P. lawyers decided that the secondhand books (sample items: ten volumes of the Bell Telephone Quarterly, the Rollo Code of Morals') were "worse than useless," and that, considering everything, King George had not even made a respectable beginning. As for Gloucester's Negro schools, the exposed and battered stovepipes were still there, and the toilet facilities were still inadequate. The N.A.A.C.P. took the two counties back to court...
...Yearbook staff will man a secondhand clothing booth for which students have donated used clothing. Used books and textbooks will also be sold at the merchandise stand, sponsored by the SDA and the Anthropology Club...
...jade figurines bring only a quarter of the price they commanded last winter. One tunghsi man reminisces mournfully: "The mandarin coats-ah! We used to sell them for $20 apiece. When we ran out of real ones we went to the undertakers and bought up their supply of secondhand burial clothes. The burial clothes were even more ornate, and the Americans were twice as happy...
...futile effort. Sensing the moment, old Tom Connally ripped into Taft's logic as the kind of "haggling which takes place in a secondhand clothing store...