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

He has produced a combined morality play and grimoire, or devil's hornbook, in which every creature is experienced with hilarious or dreadful concreteness.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Then if you’ll try to meet me there this afternoon, I'll bring you a hornbook and I’ll teach you to read some of it. Will you come?”

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