hornbook

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Still, as Ritholtz and Invictus point out, it’s hornbook economics that the proper way to deal with non-seasonally adjusted figures is to use year-to-year comparisons, which obviate seasonal trends.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2024

In the early 1600s, a child’s first book in New England was called a hornbook, a board in the shape of a paddle upon which was written the Lord’s Prayer and the alphabet.

From Washington Times • Feb. 24, 2018

Like it or not, the American high school cannot return to the hornbook and the birch rod.

From Time Magazine Archive

Political Self-Portrait is a kind of rebel's hornbook, full of references to the doctrines and deeds of those who Wheelwright felt have most signally helped�and hindered�truth-telling and liberty.

From Time Magazine Archive

In all her short life the child had seldom seen, and certainly never held in her hands, anything so lovely as the exquisite little silver hornbook.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare