Word: borrower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Students newly enrolled in the University should register at the Delivery Desk on the Second Floor, bringing their Bursar's Card. By registering a student secures the right to borrow books. Five books may be taken at a time for use in the Reading Room but not more than three for outside...
...Washington. D. C., its recently established plan of assisting investigators in scientific research by locating, scientific publications which are not generally or readily accessipbe. Realizing that many scientists lack the library facilities which their work demands, and that they are compelled either to journey to distant libraries or to borrow books by mail, the Service plans to have manuscripts, printed matter, or illustrations copied by Photostat or typewriter. The cost of copying varies from ten to twenty five cents per page. No charge is made for this service unless an advance estimate of cost has been submitted and approved...
...Company under the direction of the Bureau of Self-Help. The men behind the venture could make a reasonable profit and at the same time offer fair dealing to their customers. There is the difficulty of financing such a proposition, but even in the event of being unable to borrow money for payment at the time of purchase, the backers would find many men who would prefer a reasonable price in the fall to selling their possessions for a song three months earlier. --The Daily Princetonian
...desire for a rest in preparation for the board graduate work, and partly to the necessity of earning the funds for that work. More recently the modern tendency to hurry has lead to a profound change. Men are entering the professional schools immediately after graduation, preferring to borrow the needed money and push themselves right through, rather than to wait and earn it by teaching. The present-day youth has no time to spend on stop-gaps...
...oration. The Russians have listened to that style of address for so long that it is safe to assume that they still give it credence. But to those outside the spell of Lenine's mastery of words, it is apparent that Russia, having wasted her own resources, would now borrow those of other countries. It is not a question of strength, but of life itself. Unless help is forthcoming from some direction, the Russians will soon be forced to exist entirely upon Lenine's delightful speeches and, like Hamlet, to "eat the air, promise-crammed...