Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kept in the front office, behind a counter. They keep all the girls behind the counter, too. They have an elevator, but only the girls and the books can use it, not the people who use the library. Further contact with the exploiters may be had at Desk 3. When I was a freshman I asked some girl where Desk 2 was, and she said she didn't know, but they had milk and cookies there, and I wasted half the afternoon looking...
...times I've woke up with eyes on fire, a mouthful of hair, and the bedsheets giving me soft, lingering caresses every time I try to move a muscle. Even the clock seems sleepy after I throw it on the pile of dirty clothes in the corner. On the desk, which is bare and cleared for action, lies a little paper book which purports to discuss Science, Socialism and a Static Society. I knew it was worthless last night, but I felt so exploited I just had to get something out of the building. Now, too late...
...years following, more than 4,000 undergraduates in addition to graduate thesis-writers and visiting researchers had to draw their books from Widener Library. With its closed stacks and complicated card files, the parent library could distribute texts in only two ways--through its regular book desk, or through the reference desk in its main reading room. Frustrated undergraduates would wait endlessly only to discover that the books they needed to read for an exam were unavailable...
Mobbing of the reserve book desk is another problem at these times, and the spirit of the occasion comes close to that of a Jordan Marsh reduction sale. McNiff sees no sure fire solution to this problem, but is considering establishing waiting lines for reserve books during rush periods. This might at least give the debacles the more dignified air of the Cambridge Trust Company at 1:55 Friday afternoon...
...excitement over Trieste faded (largely because the U.S. and Britain would make no move for fear of offending Yugoslavia's Dictator Tito), the basic weakness of Pella's position began to overtake him. A caretaker can dust the desk, but he cannot move the furniture or redecorate the place. Italy was full of continuing discontent-over the 2,000,000 unemployed, over low wages and high costs, over clericalism ν. anticlericalism in politics, over land reform. The caretaker Premier, by the nature of his position, had neither program nor machinery for doing much about...