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Word: desk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bright day last June a small white-haired man crossed the path between Matthews and Grays carrying a bulky, brown scroll under one arm. Entering an office he laid the scroll on the secretary's desk, gazed at it for a moment and walked out. With this simple act ended one of the strangest traditions in recent Harvard history...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lukas, | Title: Secret Scroll, Too Big For Hiding-Place, Retired After Sixty-Seven Year History | 11/10/1953 | See Source »

...little desk in the main hall sits Dugald Livingstone. He must watch all Claverly men and be sure they don't sneak anything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutors Intensify Enforcement for Claverly Parietals | 11/3/1953 | See Source »

...Livingstone's desk is a little yellow notice, announcing the change. It is signed by the resident tutors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutors Intensify Enforcement for Claverly Parietals | 11/3/1953 | See Source »

Installation of a sign-in desk system for bringing in female guests marked another step in Claverly's climb toward a dignity on a par with that of the Houses, some felt last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutors Intensify Enforcement for Claverly Parietals | 11/3/1953 | See Source »

...tardy 37 times, and the year before in New York, 32 times . . . I once went to his school in New York. When I put my head in the door, someone fired a book at me. All the kids were standing up screaming. The teacher was shouting and banging the desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Transformation | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

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