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...overcrowded library in Gore Hall and "doubted whether it be wise for a University to undertake to store books by the millions when only a small proportion of the material stored can be in active use." He suggested that dead books could be stored in a much more compact manner in separate quarters. Naturally every professor was horrified by the thought that a book in his department could be considered "dead," so the idea was dropped for 40 years...
...York Times had called the Peiping conference the "nauseous force" of a "compact little oligarchy dominated by Moscow's nominees." But the Moscow press hailed it as one of the year's two "stupendous events"-the other being Russia's explosion of an atomic bomb...
...Leader. The shmoozers are the ladies' garment workers, who clothe the U.S. woman above the wrist, below the neck, and above the ankle. Just about everything that goes into a woman's bureau drawer or hangs in her closet comes from this compact, 23-block area that runs north from 34th Street to Times Square, west from Broadway to Ninth Avenue. Flanking it to the south is the U.S. fur center, seven noisome streets. On its eastern border are the millinery shops where half of U.S. ladies' hats are fashioned...
...Club. The Dwarf twirled his two Lugers, sarcastically asked Pramote: "Can you spare 300 deals?" (about $15). Pramote said his wife had all his money; she was out. The Dwarf waited. When she arrived, on a three-wheeled Siamese pedicab, he grabbed her purse; it contained only keys, a compact and some change. The Dwarf shot her in the chest, wounding her seriously...
...monument-type statues and the more economical table-top models, and that neither the abstract left wing nor the representational right wing succeeded in dominating the show. Prices set by the sculptors ranged from $125 for a baby bear by Muriel Kelsey to $24,000 for Spring Stirring, a compact carving in black diorite by California's Donal Hord...