Word: assignation
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...attempt to assign low-priced rooms on a fairer basis, the Financial Aid Center is checking the financial position of almost 400 men so that it can advise the Housemasters next week on who needs inexpensive rooms the most...
...found that the worker was frustrated, made to feel like an "inferior creature, a number in a department." The indignities of the factory caste system, he declares, crush the worker's ego-"The time clock is a beautiful symbol of servitude." Workers are constantly galled by rules which assign them to dining rooms and toilets inferior to their bosses', and leave them, to scramble for space in the parking lot where stalls are reserved for executives...
Students can assign their money to any of six student charities: the World Student Service Fund, the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, the Salzburg Seminar, Phillips Brooks House, the American Field Service International Scholarships, and Student Council Scholarships, or to any other national or local charity they choose...
...such maneuvers is that there are simply not enough books to go around. This is not unexpected, but in many instances there is a whole shelf full of copies of one book while there are only two or three copies of another that contains an equal amount of assigned reading. In some cases this is due to departments that won't purchase enough volumes, in others to professors who assign out-of-print editions. Lamont officials say they try, to adjust the number of copies of a book to student demand as much as possible...
...their mail is Editor Michael Hall of the London Mystery Magazine, a new, highbrow whodunit monthly. As our story said, Hall, an ex-reporter on the Manchester Guardian and a British Army veteran, got the British post office to recognize the mythical 221 B* as a real address and assign it to his forthcoming magazine...