Word: catalog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would have an excuse (inability to get into a stiff shirt without her) to give all the parties a miss. Lady Lindsay somewhat rehabilitated herself with the Washington press by calling attention to the fact that the Lady Lindsay roses in her garden are described in the catalog as ''stout, very thorny and tending to ramble...
...worth. Samples : Agriculture can spend $75,000 for a Tropical Forest Experiment Station in Puerto Rico; Treasury, $27,714 to send a Coast Guard patrol boat and one cutter on a demonstration cruise; Library of Congress, $27,200 to show Latin Ameri cans how to use and catalog their libraries, $10,000 to present their 20 Governments with photostats of "fundamental American documents"; Federal Communications Commission, advice on radio problems (free) ; National Emergency Council, two $45,000 propaganda films, one about Latin America for U. S. audiences, the other about the U. S. in Spanish and Portuguese...
What really makes me mad is that in Widener Library, where the catalog says that "all men are equal before the knowledge of the ages," there is a door plainly marked FIRE HOSE FOR OFFICERS ONLY. This burns us Freshmen up. Norman E. Furbrush...
...blue skies above, for the official maximum estimate of his laboratory hours in Chemistry 2 and Chemistry 3 is nineteen per week and he will do well to finish his work in that time. The Junior, with Chemistry 4 and Chemistry 6, practically establishes residence in the laboratories. The catalog estimates a mere twenty-four hours as a maximum, but again he will often run over this time. As a Senior, he will probably feel constrained to take two advanced chemistry courses, or perhaps even do research work. In such a case, his laboratory hours are indefinitely long. Thus, throughout...
...absorbing interest in contemporary modernistic scores, he shines brightest as a conductor of romantic German symphonies. As a composer he cannot be identified with any school. "People have been puzzled and annoyed," said good-natured, courtly Enesco in an interview, ''because they have been unable to catalog and classify me in the usual way. They could not decide exactly what type of music mine was. It was not French, after the manner of Debussy, it was not exactly German. That, I feel sure, comes from the fact that my musical education was not confined to one locality...