"Bureau" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Written for the Children of the City and Country School (formerly the Play School) and the Nursery School of the Bureau of Educational Experiments. ...
— Here and Now Story Book - Two- to seven-year-olds • Lucy Sprague Mitchell
... congress or democracy has yet given could be had in simpler and cheaper ways. The automatic scheme of competitive examinations would give us better rulers at half the present cost. Even an ordinary intelligence office, or "statesman's employment bureau," would serve us better than conventions and elections. But a people which could be ruled in that way, content to be governed well by forces outside itself, would not be worth the saving. But this is not the point at issue. Government too good, as well as too bad, may have a baneful influence ...
— The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches • David Starr Jordan
... the Bureau of Longitudes concerning population authorize us again to subtract from the total mentioned two millions of young girls, pretty enough to kill; they are at present in the A B C of life and innocently play with other children, without dreading ...
— Analytical Studies • Honore de Balzac
... go to her room to call her and find the note to Uncle Jason she had left pinned to the cushion on her bureau. ...
— The Mission of Janice Day • Helen Beecher Long
... of 1875, under the auspices of the Redpath Lyceum Bureau, in Boston, Mr. Barnum found time to deliver some thirty times, a lecture on "The World and How to Live in It," going as far east as Thomaston, Maine, and west to Leavenworth, Kansas. When the tour was finished the Bureau wrote him that "In parting for the season please allow us ...
— A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career. Life of Hon. Phineas T. • Joel Benton
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