Word: decays
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...Harry may be overmatched. The Azkaban prison guards, horrid hooded apparitions called dementors, have been summoned to Hogwarts to protect Harry, but he keeps fainting whenever a dementor comes near him. A sympathetic professor tells Harry why dementors merit fear: "They breed in the darkest, filthiest places, they create decay and despair, they drain peace, hope and happiness out of any human who comes too close to them... Even Muggles feel their presence, though they can't see them. Get too near a dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked...
Last summer also saw the beginning of the $52 million, two-and-a-half year renovation of Widener's stacks. The mammoth project will not only prevent the further decay of books but add air conditioning and two new reading rooms. Although the project has inevitably caused disruptions to library users, we commend the conscious attempt to minimize these inconveniences...
Because of heat, humidity and sunlight, book decay has long been a problem for Harvard's largest library, which does not have a climate control system in the stacks...
What's more, common courtesy (not mowing down first-years in the last sprint to the reserve desk) and manners (letting mounds of dining hall food, trays and silverware decay at the foot of the entryway) seem to have been forgotten...
What's more, common courtesy (not mowing down first-years in the last sprint to the reserve desk) and manners (letting mounds of dining hall food, trays and silverware decay at the foot of the entryway) seem to have been forgotten...