Word: buff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order to obtain books, the borrower should look up in the Card Catalogue the book which he wants, to ascertain the call-number or shelf mark. He should then make out a slip for each book wanted; a buff colored slip if the book is for outside use, or a blue slip if it is for use in the Reading Room...
...need be forced to remain in a course discovered at the last minute to be overflowing because it was too difficult to find an acceptable substitute at such short notice. Some such scheme for equalizing registration from year to year and eliminating the present game of blind man's buff is the logical answer to the situation as it now exists...
...order to obtain books the borrower should look up in the Card Catalogue the book which he wants, to ascertain the call-number of shelf mark. He should then make out a slip for each book wanted; a buff colored slip if the book is for outside use, or a blue slip if it is for use in the Reading Room...
...praise to say that this month's Atlantic Monthly matches in wit the famous Fake Crimson, and the Boston Transcript editions of Lampy. As befits the "literary undergraduate publication" the burlesque is not too obvious, in fact June Dandelions, the opening story, might almost have appeared between the authentic buff covers of the Back Bay Monthly. There is the same haunting sense of fatality and say-it-with-flowers motif, the same flattering intimation that the reader can sense the emotional power of the female character without being told the tiresome details...