Word: bodleian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took a hurried heaving of academic shoulders to force the door open, and thus to dedicate Oxford's $4,000,000 New Bodleian Library. The old Bodleian, which started in Shakespeare's day, was once the biggest library in the Empire, is still among the world's top 15 (an estimated 1,500,000 books). The bulging Bodleian long ago overflowed into nearby buildings and vaults; the Copyright Act entitles it to a copy of every new work published within the United Kingdom. Largely paid for by Rockefeller Foundation money, the new annex has space for five...
...reputation was known to us. We were told by our older friends all the stories and anecdotes which are now part of the "Kitty" legend. We heard about Kitty crossing Harvard Square, Kitty falling off the lecture platform, and Kitty at the Bodleian...