of his championship of many of the progressive social measures which adorn our statute books today, and of his cooperation in times of adversity with Presidents of both of our major parties in helping to pilot the Ship of State through the shoals of today's stormy international seas.

Maine was the last New England State to take off the books laws that prohibited department stores from opening on Sundays.

Although there has been an attempt to demonstrate any link between the Red Brigades and foreign State Security Services, nothing has been proved and such an idea has always been rejected by all the militants that after years of prison decided to speak their truth in books, interviews etc.

Hoffmann is also a writer of poetry published in two collections, " The Metamict State " ( 1987, ISBN 0-8130-0869-7 ) and " Gaps and Verges " ( 1990, ISBN 0-8130-0943-X ), and of books explaining chemistry to the general public.

The State of the World is a series of books published annually since 1984 by the Worldwatch Institute.

In Stanley v. Georgia,, the Court ruled that " f the First Amendment means anything, it means that a State has no business telling a man, sitting in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

When his colleague Lepidus died, Augustus assumed his office as pontifex maximus, took priestly control over the State oracles ( including the Sibylline books ), and used his powers as censor to suppress the circulation of " unapproved " oracles.

* The Ball State University Digital Media Repository Historic Children's Book collection provides online access to children's books from the 20th and 19th centuries.

Professor Russel B. Nye of Michigan State University countered that " if the message of the Oz books — love, kindness, and unselfishness make the world a better place — seems of no value today ", then maybe the time is ripe for " reassess a good many other things besides the Detroit library's approved list of children's books ".

Peroutka expressed his political and other opinions also in several books: Boje o dnešek (" Fights for Today "), Ano a ne (" Yes and No "), Budování státu (" Building of the State ") and Osobnost, chaos a zlozvyky (" Personality, Chaos and Bad Habits ").

The largest library in Sydney is the State Library of New South Wales, which hold over 4. 7 million items, including 2 million books.

The first Borders bookshop, with a meager stock of used books, was located in two rooms above 209 State Street, north of the State Theater.

In 1975 they bought out the stock of Wahr's, an 80-year-old bookstore that was ending business at 316 South State, and hired Michael Hildebrand and Harvey James Robin to stock it with rare books and manage the old shop.

He is the author, coauthor, or editor of a dozen books including: A New History of Kentucky ; Kentucky: Decades of Discord, 1865 – 1900 ; Kentucky: Portrait in Paradox, 1900 – 1950 ; William Goebel: The Politics of Wrath ; The Breckinridges of Kentucky ; Our Kentucky: A Study of the Bluegrass State ; and History Mysteries.

Besides his books on the State, we find quoted various treatises on Education, on Royalty, on the Best State, on Political Morals, and particularly his works on the Laws, one of which, containing a recapitulation of the laws of various barbarian as well as Greek states, was intended to be a companion to Aristotle's outline of Politics, and must have been similar to it.

Beginning in 213 BC, at the instigation of Li Si and to avoid scholars ' comparisons of his reign with the past, Qin Shi Huang ordered most existing books to be burned with the exception of those on astrology, agriculture, medicine, divination, and the history of the State of Qin.

" Branstad was accused by former Iowa State Auditor Richard Johnson of keeping " two sets of books " on the state budget when he was governor.

The African American collection is a body of historically significant and current books by and about African Americans and includes papers and memorabilia of such persons as the late Emmett P. Scott, secretary to Booker T. Washington, and Arthur J. Smith, who was associated with the Far East Consular Division of the State Department.

* Emil Draitser, author of 12 books and 135 short stories, professor of Russian at Hunter College, New York and three-time winner of a fellowship grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

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The confused rambling of guerrilla warfare, such as most of Garibaldi's campaigns were, was brought to life by Trevelyan's pen in some of the best passages in the books.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

Everywhere else his ideas lay or hung in visible form: his models, drawings, ten-foot canvases in monochromes from his painting days, and underfoot a windfall of broken-backed books that looked as though their insides had been ransacked by a maniac.

Then epistolatory me was a foreign correspondent dispatching exciting cables and communiques, full of dash and wit and glamor, quoting from the books I read, imitating the grand styles of the authors recommended by a teacher in whose special, after-school class I was enrolled.

If there is time after the warning, the basement shielding could be improved substantially by blocking windows with bricks, dirt, books, magazines, or other heavy material.

The books and records with respect to each project shall be maintained for the duration of the project, or until the expiration of three years after final disbursement for the project has been made by the United States, whichever is later.

A `` book count '' was the sellin' of cattle by the books, commonly resorted to in the early days, sometimes much to the profit of the seller.

Not only should this provision be enforced but other economic and political actions might be taken which, this author believes, `` must surely be supported by every American who values the freedom that has been won for him and whose conscience is not so dominated by the lines in his account books that he can willingly and knowingly contribute to the enslavement of another nation ''.

The books are carried around by truck in canvas bags from headquarters to the other libraries.

Public libraries in Nassau County have been lending books to each other by mail for a quarter-century, but the system enables this process to operate on an organized and far more comprehensive basis.

Sample copies of new books are on display at headquarters, where librarians may evaluate them by themselves or in workshop groups.

In college libraries, 57 per cent of the total number of books are owned by 124 of 1,509 institutions surveyed last year by the U.S. Office of Education.

Among the many severe measures taken by the First Emperor, Shih Huang-ti, in his efforts to insure the continuation of this hard-won national unity, was the burning of the books in 213 B.C., with the expressed intention of removing possible sources for divergent thinking ; ;

And the best books by generals were not necessarily the first ones written.

It is danced by some thirty-five men and no women, and it contains everything in the books -- lusty comedy, gregarious cavorting, and tricks that only madmen or Russians would attempt to make the human body perform.

Too many books and articles are just assembled by putting one word after another.

He then decided to become a lawyer and began teaching himself law by reading Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England and other law books.

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He stated that he acquired many of his writing techniques from three books, " Narrative Technique " by Thomas Uzzell, and " The Only Two Ways to Write a Story " plus " Twenty Problems of the Short-Story Writer ", both by John Gallishaw.

Milne is most famous for his two Pooh books about a boy named Christopher Robin after his son, Christopher Robin Milne, and various characters inspired by his son's stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh.

All three books were illustrated by E. H. Shepard.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).