At the scene a man with a big forehead, gray hair, a flat nose, and a few missing teeth lay on the sidewalk, next to a stack of books and an empty coffee-cup.

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They could get a job learning from a plumber or a machinist, or apprenticing to a furniture maker or just sitting in the library with a big stack of books and a notepad.

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On the stand, Gilbreth, a burly former bricklayer and consummate showman, grabbed a stack of law books, pretended they were bricks, and built a wall, explaining how to eliminate wasted motion.

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As a final touch, Ms. Kemble likes setting out a small stack of books for guests to browse often ones featuring vintage holiday photos, stories of Christmas wishes or collections of quotes or short poems.

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Eric Rothschild, a lawyer for eight families suing to have intelligent design removed from the Dover Area School District's biology curriculum, presented Behe with a stack of more than a half-dozen books written about the evolution of the immune system.

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He took a step backward and was about to leave when his eyes fell again on the stack of the books, Zola, Dostoyevsky, Hugo, all the titles had been there, as they were a few weeks before.

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