Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undergraduate co-operation with Lamont Library has been responsible for increased availability of Desk 3 books, Philip J. McNiff, Assistant Librarian of the University, said yesterday...
...West German government, however, did not give in to discouragement. "We are going to have more of this, and soon Berliners will feel like citizens again," said a spokesman. Workmen at the Technological Institute carefully stored away the Bundestag president's desk and the speaker's rostrum for future...
...family after supper around the television set. Other nights he goes straight to his room to work over his ledgers or to study one or more of the hundreds of Government bulletins, F.F.A. information sheets, farm papers or textbooks that are available to him. On the wall above his desk are tacked the green sheets of weekly feed prices that he gets from a feed company. On a stool in his bathroom is a copy of the Farm Journal. All these are part of a vast farm communications network that has made the modern U.S. farmer the best informed...
...past, many an undergraduate must have gazed into the darkened interior of Lamont Library at night after 9:45 or on Sundays, and wished fervently that every College administrator would pin these words above his desk and meditate upon them daily. Then the undergraduate would sigh hopelessly and trudge back to his dormitory, often to join in the noise-making that prevented concentrated study. To this student, it must have seemed that the Library existed for the convenience of its staff. His demands for longer Lamont hours were met with the explanation that keeping the Library open would be prohibitive...
...Closing desk three and using student help at checkout desks may lower Lamont's operating costs considerably. If this saving can justify extension of Library hours, the studious undergraduate may soon happily view acres of neon gleaming through Lamont's glass walls...