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  • Funny that the party of misquoting Jefferson (then removing him from the text-books) is pro-tyrant.

    Think Progress » Health care reform protesters mock man carrying sign saying he has Parkinson’s disease. 2010

  • He bought the text-books on physics and chemistry, and, along with his algebra, worked out problems and demonstrations.

    Chapter 11 2010

  • There are actual full color text-books for the students to read from … AND I have free access to a copy machine to give worksheets to the students.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Will 2009

  • It is therefore small wonder, and by no means to be blamed on the authors of original papers or of text-books, that after a reasonably coherent theory has been formed, they do not describe the bare facts they have found or wish to convey to the reader, but clothe them in the terminology of that theory or theories.

    September 13th, 2009 m_francis 2009

  • He is a freelance illustrating artist, working mostly for children magazines, newspapers, school text-books, and also producing book-cover art.

    EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Aleksandar Žiljak 2009

  • There are actual full color text-books for the students to read from … AND I have free access to a copy machine to give worksheets to the students.

    Volunteering at JPA school Will 2009

  • This was an error, that was an assumption, and the next was an assertion contrary to ascertained truth as printed in all the text-books.

    Chapter 5: The Philomaths 2010

  • Besides, they were busy revising sociology and writing new text-books on the subject.

    Goliah 2010

  • It is true that the statement 'All men are mortal' is paraded in text-books of logic as an example of a general proposition; but no human being really grasps it, and our unconscious has as little use now as it ever had for the idea of its own mortality.

    Room 333: The Most Haunted Hotel Room in London Ellen Ladowsky 2010

  • Her comments were backed up by Professor Nurit Peled an expert on language education and discourse analysis, who has been studying Israeli school text-books over the past decade.

    Why We Can't Write This Story Ruth Eglash 2010

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