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Word: carded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Patterned along the lines of a public relations counsels, the man in this new post would have no sinecure job. Suppose a student turns in a card at the delivery desk for a book on a particular phase of Economics. After a reasonable interval, he is politely informed that the book is out. Unhappily, he slouches off, much inclined to give full credence to the worst rumors about Widener's indifference. But here is where the contact man's duties begin. To his centrally located desk the student plods and unfolds his troubles. The contact man is interested; he looks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHEPHERD TO THE STACKS | 12/9/1937 | See Source »

...whose good nature tends to conquer their large and righteous anger at being paged like Information Clerks. What's the matter is that if all the red tape in the world were laid end to end University Hall would need half. So unbelievable is the complication of the study card system that Dean Phelps has to give students from the first week in December until the second in February to do the paper work of choosing four courses. Instead of one sharp pain the process is a long drawn-out agony. Instead of one, final card the student is directed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SANTA CLAUS IN UNIVERSITY C | 12/8/1937 | See Source »

...searches discovery was made of material for forging identity papers, instructions for the transportation of arms, information on the strength of the Paris police force, as well as that of the adjoining departments of Seine-et-Oise and Seine-et-Marne with the names of their commanding officers, also card-indexed information concerning a large number of military officers and the material of certain regiments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Monstrous Conspiracy | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...THIS CARD ENTITLES THE BEARER...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vice-Chairman of Freshman Dance Puts Joker in Ticket | 11/26/1937 | See Source »

Every U. S. citizen under 40 who ever had a middle-class home or a children's library card knows the illustrations of Howard Pyle and N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth. Together they were and are the chief artistic pride of Wilmington, Del., and their abundant families and pupils continue to paint like fury. Last week a young Wyeth and a young Pyle again took first and second honors in the 24th annual triple-exhibition of Delaware Artists, Pupils of Howard Pyle and Members of the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, held on the second floor of Wilmington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pyles & Wyeths | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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