Word: assign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...users of the most popular texts to sign them in every hour so that others may have a turn; but it is hard to get much done when someone is sitting three chairs away waiting eagerly for the end of the hour. The University should change its policy and assign extra copies of vital books to the Houses where they will be in constant use, instead of keeping the whole horde at Boylston on the Union, where it is subject mostly to afternoon and evening rushes. Besides, that long invigorating walk through the cool and healthful night air is highly...
Actually, the message contained little that Harry Truman had not recommended in scattershot fashion before. But by failing to assign any order or priority to his sweeping proposals, the President was obviously, and shrewdly, gunning for every vote he could reach...
...Government 13b, Radcliffe sits in the back five rows of Emerson D or in seats over at the side near the windows "that the monitors will not assign to Harvard because of the draft." Although they have the "new long skirts to wrap about their ankles," says the News, the girls still suffer from cold ankles...
...that the H.A.A. can assign students by class, a bursar's card must be presented before any tickets are given or applications made, Lunden said. Freshmen with or without guests ordinarily are seated over the track, with the rest of the classes in ascending positions, the seniors at the top of the concrete sections and the graduate students in the colonnades...
Because, in general, TIME'S group journalism makes it difficult to assign ultimate credit for a single TIME story among those responsible for it (reporter, researcher, writer, editor, etc.), TIME'S longstanding rule is seldom, if ever, to divulge the authorship of a story. In this case, so many of you have wanted to know the author that TIME has decided to break the rule. Speculating on the authorship of the Marian Anderson story, Marjorie Kinnan (The Yearling) Rawlings wrote: "My belated obeisances for the magnificent story on Marian Anderson. It was so beautifully written (my guess would...