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March 1941 Pnge 9 (Til IMPORTANT BIRTHDAY^' OF MARCH March 2--Dewltt Clinton 2--Sam Houston 3—Alexander G. Bell 6—Elizabeth Barrett Browning 7—Luther Burbank 16-James ?Iadison 17-St, Patrick 19-David Livingston 22-Rosa Bonheur INFORMATION GAINED QUICKLY FROM DICTIONARY The dictionary is a book in which the words of a lan;^uage or some part of a language are '^listed alphabeti cally with their meanings> pronun ciation and so forth* In addition to the main alphabet, it contains a number of special features; as ^ gazetter information, flags, and key to abbreviations, ■'5ome of the most important information found in dictionaries aro abbreviations, an tonyms, derivation of words---the language from which the v/ord is de - rived—flags and seals, foreign words and phrases , geographical names, geography, good English usu- age—colloquial, obsolete, slang -- illustrations, maps, definitions, parts of speech, plural forms, pronunciation, proper names, punc - tuation marks, quotations, spooling, suffixes, synonyms, and verbs whoso principal parts aro given. Diction aries separate transitive verbs from intransitive verbs. When one uses the dictionary, ho not only finds the definition or pronuncia tion of a word,but finds synonyms,an tonyms, and any other information he might need to secure about a word^ "A book is a bank from which you may draw pleasure;-,, knowledge, and inspiration,” SPECIAL REFERENCE BOOKS AVAILABLE IN SCHOOL LIBRARY Bailey High School library con tains several kinds of special ro- ferenco books. Among those a few aro doscribed hero, NORTH CAROLINA YEAR BOCK contains Information about the population, BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS is a collection of quotations, phrase^ and proverbs of anciont and modern literature arranged clironologica 1 ly by the date of the author. An alpha betical index in the front of the book identifies a work by each authcr, Bartlett’s also contains Bibical and foreign quotations* In addition the library owns a T0A3TER»S HANDBOOK filled with jokes, stories, and quotations "Listed among current bobt soUcrs in Germany; Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Prionds and Influence Peo^To," ""An .optimist is • a man who doe"sn»t c '.re v;hat happens, just so it doean’t happen to him." 'a pesoimist is a man who lives vdth an optimist," "In doionce, road, by preference , the newest courses; in literature, the oldest." PATRIOTISM General Gordon, the confederate comraandor, used to toll the follov;- Ing story: Ho was sitting by the roadside one blazing hot day when a dilapidated soldier, his clothing in rags, a shoo lacking, his head bandaged, and his arm in a sling, passed liim. He was talking to liim— self in this manner: "l love my country. I’d fight for my country. I’d starve and go thirst^’- for my country. I’d die for my coun try, But if ever this damn war is over I’ll never love another countiTi"
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