Word: carding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the new card system a skillful operator can arrange as many as 90,000 cards per hour so that they are all placed with their tops up and facing forward. But no more than 15,000 an hour will ever have to be dealt with, the staff believes...
Since the new two week limit on books announced last June, the library has been encouraging renewal of books, which may be done by postcard or telephone. In the filling system when a book is renewed, another slip is stapled onto the original card to nullify the first notch, and a new notch is put in it for the new day on which it falls...
...Library also wished to encourage borrowers to place their names on the waiting list for any book that is out. The cards of persons on the waiting list are also stapled onto the card of the first borrower so that a complete record is kept in one place only. As soon as the book in returned the first person on the list in notified...
When President Eduard Benes, after yielding to the Munich demands, obtained by his last appeal to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain an immediate British loan of $50,000,000 to Czechoslovakia, he had played his last card...
...failed to make him sad, the narrator continues, the incident at least enabled him to form an opinion of life. It was a low opinion, but subsequent events did nothing to change it. He became successively a bellhop, an elevator boy, a croupier, a soldier, a jewel thief, a card sharp. Women came and went: the countess in the hotel at Monte Carlo, a beautiful blonde burglar, the wife who won consistently at roulette until he married her, then lost just as steadily. (During the course of his tale, an old lady enters the café and sits next...