Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Desk 3 to Stay Open Later...
Students can still check out reserve books at 9:00 p.m., but desk three, where closed reserve books are housed, will stay open until midnight. The only facilities that Lamont will close at 9:00 p.m. are the Woodberry Poetry Room and the reference room service desk. Although the library will open each of the five Sundays in the reading and exam period, reserve books which are checked out Saturday afternoons will continue to be due Monday morning...
...Flaubert grants his two heroes superiority over their contemporaries. Bouvard and Pecuchet, having found that they cannot conquer the world with ideas, return to their old task of copying. They build a double copying desk and set to work together. As in Voltaire's Candide, their last act is their most noble; a realization of the world's shortcomings and the acceptance of a simple, limited vocation as the only attainable reality of life...
...nearly two weeks-until the National Assembly dispersed for vacation-France's canny Foreign Minister Georges Bidault kept a document locked up in his desk. Then, one day last week, he took out the paper, got Premier Laniel to summon the Cabinet to consider it. It contained Britain's terms for "associating" with the proposed European Defense Community, an association which Paris demanded as one of three major preconditions to France's final decisions...
...meetings (he is a trustee of ten educational institutions, plus the Rockefeller Foundation and the General Education Board), lectures, student interviews and faculty meetings; day's end leaves his two secretaries with a thorough sense of having earned their pay. Van Dusen himself, likely as not, "takes his desk home" to catch up on his correspondence after dinner, with the help of a dictating machine...