Banned Books, take two.During the ALA's Banned Books Week, the superintendent of Virginia's Harrisonburg Harrisonburg, city (1990 pop. 30,707), seat of Rockingham co., NW Va., in the Shenandoah Valley; settled 1739, inc. 1916. It is a processing center in a poultry, dairy, and livestock area. Manufactures include computers, clothing, paper and metal products, machinery, building materials, transportation equipment, chemicals, furniture, animal feeds, and fertilizers. Gen. T. J. High School ordered a display of banned or "challenged" books--including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Fahrenheit F 451, and The Diary of Anne Frank--removed. The reason? Students might be tempted to read them.
Of or relating to a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32°F and the boiling point as 212°F at one atmosphere of pressure. |
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