Word: basements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before each issue is read it is a mint of worthwhile information, but what in the world good are several hundred copies in my basement ? I can give them away ... or better, solicit TIME'S help, among its readers, for a better, more profitable method of disposition. Is there some rich, retired seaman, or world-traveler, who would like an index of all these books, willing to pay for them, ship them to some far away place...
...morning since the building was built eight years ago, estimates that he has made the bell ring more than 300,000 times. He always wears gloves, he says, to avoid getting hemp splinters in his hands. A bellrope, extending from the Chapel tower to Ehler's room in the basement, lasts about five years on the average, and the present one, already black from glove leather, has been in use a year. In the event of a memorial service, Ehler has to climb up in the tower and toll the bell at close quarters. Most of the time...
...heart of Baltimore's tenderloin is a flashy basement honkytonk called the Oasis. Passers-by are invited to "walk down one flight and save nothing," enter "the worst night club in America," witness "the lousiest shows in the world...
...shaped reading room has been made so it can be converted into a hallway and offices if the occasion should arise. In the reading room there is a stairway which is the only access to the stacks and cubicles on the ground floor. Below this there is a sub-basement and basement which are both filled with stacks, reached by the same stairway...
...basement has been all fixed up, with members spending many hours clearing it out and painting the walls. Both Graduate and Undergraduate students have been eligible for membership...