Word: denseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Book Center would be a friendly building, divided into many rooms and dens; each room would contain books on a related group of subjects, and to each room would be appended stacks, open to anybody. A personable reference staff would be ready to help students at any time. And...
Last week Tom Pendergast's Police Director Otto Higgins resigned, wept at having to leave "the best police department in the country." While Kansas City wondered whether Tom Pendergast's machine was cracking up, Mayor Smith & Co. made a great to-do about closing gambling dens, putting clothes...
Since September the first eight Nieman Fellows have been following their collective nose for knowledge into Harvard's classrooms, laboratories, libraries, professorial dens. (A ninth, Irving Billiard of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, will start next term.) As a combination managing editor and wet nurse they have able Poet...
While New Yorkers watched their crusading District Attorney Thomas Dewey expose a gambling racket that preys on the pennies of the poor, Chicagoans were last week being treated by their State's Attorney Thomas Courtney to a more de luxe gambling crusade. Shuttling across the sprawling city, Mr. Courtney...
That the halls of Lehman and Straus might not be beclouded dens of iniquitous pursuits, a crew of men worked in the Yard yesterday for three hectic hours, installing a more efficient electrical transformer to serve these buildings.