Word: altar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faculty plays. Along the Charles the windows light up quickly as darkness comes, and hands reach up to pull the shades, then fall back to turning the pages. Blue books are every day laid in neat little piles, A--M and N--Z, as if on a sacrificial altar. Alarm clocks jangle so early that they scare the mice back into their holes. Extra chairs are brought into the libraries, and the book return service does a rushing business. It is a picture that might interest a Pareto or a Spengler, the spectacle of a society under stress...