Should book-keeping be taught in the public schools?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference

He did the book-keeping and Mac Howard … you could.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Clay East, September 22, 1973. Interview E-0003. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

There ain't no book-keeping necessary in my business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference

Now boys study Greek and algebra, medicine and book-keeping.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859] Reference

FreeAgent Central aims at … free agents who hate book-keeping.    From Wordnik.com.  [FreeAgent Central aims at… free agents who hate book-keeping] Reference

And in the Transkei, there is no book-keeping at any municipality.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Simple Shorthand in a week, then use it writing up their book-keeping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces] Reference

My father had a big oak roll top desk he used for all his book-keeping.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Biography of a Rabbit] Reference

You will find a model of a stack card in the section on book-keeping (5.2.4.4).    From Wordnik.com.  [5. Central storage] Reference

It would also offer short courses such as basic book-keeping and stock control.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Type-setting and book-keeping are in some instances beginning to be open to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference

Training is focused on technical tasks and book-keeping, and is mostly given to men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

Thereafter he blazed out a hot-headed summary of book-keeping that made his father gasp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenny] Reference

Mathematics and geography and statistics and Italian book-keeping, ha-ha ha-ha! and music!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jew and other stories] Reference

But no idea of book-keeping, even in its most rudimentary form, was ever entertained by him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants"] Reference

And there comes Stubberud, the man the Aftenpost said was so clever at double-entry book-keeping.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim] Reference

In terms of book-keeping this would almost double the public debt, but that is rather misleading.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take a Load Off Fannie: Bailout or Nationalization for the Mortgage Giants?] Reference

She was taught how to do book-keeping and was soon promoted to the accounts supervisor for the Eatery.    From Wordnik.com.  [family secret] Reference

He went to South Africa in 1913 and lived for some time with J.P. Vyas in Pretoria, to study book-keeping.    From Wordnik.com.  [UNITED NATIONS, INDIA AND SOUTH AFRICA'S LIBERATION STRUGGLE] Reference

Cynics will point out that rigged data and sneaky book-keeping are par for the course in American finance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kevin Phillips: Lies, Damn Lies and Government Inflation Statistics] Reference

Mr. Tannenbaum said the team would handle that bit of book-keeping internally, calling it a "family matter.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Revis, Jets Bury Hatchet With New Deal] Reference

To the Lombards, in particular, is usually ascribed the invention and use of banks, book-keeping, and exchanges.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.] Reference

What for instance did he know about this business of his, aside from book-keeping and the marketing of luxuries!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road Leads On] Reference

He was appointed a logistics officer in Angola before leaving for India where he underwent a book-keeping course.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

I'm very good at shorthand -- hundred and twenty a minute; my arithmetic and book-keeping, too, are more than fair.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference

The battle against apartheid, he added, had forced many in the liberation movements to resort to "struggle book-keeping".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

You cannot do all your book-keeping in just the hour before the evening train starts: some one's account will be incorrect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference

Beyond the folk-schools are practical continuation classes for needlework, cooking, weaving, household work, and book-keeping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Finland in Carts] Reference

For the rest, I would only recommend to you in my absence, to acquire those useful accomplishments, arithmetic, and book-keeping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Life in Colonial Days] Reference

To-day it is our system of public book-keeping, a part of our state statistical organization, a clearing-house of obligations and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference

That last estimate includes a purely book-keeping figure for deep-space operations, which Narodny Mars has now agreed to finance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fountains of Paradise]

In the same way the hyphen sometimes ensures that two consonants shall be pronounced separately; as in "book-keeping," "shell-less,".    From Wordnik.com.  ["Stops", Or How to Punctuate A Practical Handbook for Writers and Students] Reference

As an example of the former class of subjects, we may instance reading and writing; and of the latter, book-keeping and the classics.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education] Reference

One of the acquirements which he considered indispensable for a secretary of the treasury was a "thorough knowledge of book-keeping.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference

This school was for writing and book-keeping, but such as chose to pay received lessons in astronomy and geography after school hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman] Reference

Thomas, I thought, had worked for the same firm of biscuit makers from the day he'd finished a course in book-keeping and accountancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Money]

A new approach that does not create false book-keeping tricks to meet politically-derived targets, but one that encourages real action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speech: Climate Change: Australia's International Strategy] Reference

The Pentagon pledged to undergo a process of "archival accounting" to track missing funds, some of which is thought to be a result of shoddy book-keeping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audit reveals billions of dollars of Iraqi oil funds gone missing] Reference