Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professors of engineering at the University of Tennessee. Henceforth, a student in the college of engineering will be able to protest that he doesn't understand what the teacher is saying by merely pressing his own special button, wired to a meter on the professor's desk. The more buttons, pressed, the more the needle will quiver, and the more it will behoove the professor to make himself clearer...
Girls have been crowded around the ibrary desk for 20 minutes waiting for busy librarians to scurry to the shelves for their books. A student Council committee recommended the addition of another person to take care of the overflow. Although this solution is now under consideration by President Jordan's office, Miss Porritt claims another person behind the crowded desk would not help...
...loss of a between classes study place. Now, in this period, students can step into a library, pull a book from the shelf and spend an hour or two on it. Without the divisional library he would have a choice of either taking a chance at Widener's front desk, with a fifteen minute wait, or going off to Lamont, with an incomplete collection. Radcliffe students, who now spend much of their time in the Emerson libraries, would not even have this alternative...
...fondly hopes that Marine officers will once more take to carrying swagger sticks, and in the field he is never without his own oversized version, a polished length of Haitian Coco-macaque wood. His hobbies are muscular: riding, spearfishing, fly-casting. A red-handled fly swatter reposes by his desk; few insects have profaned its orderly surface without becoming casualties of the U.S. Marine Corps...
...typical tourist, delighting in side trips to the antiquities of Egypt and Jerusalem, and flights over Bagdad and Damascus, even in the darkest days of war. And he had the G.I.'s souvenir-hunting spirit: at Teheran, he tried to "liberate" one of Stalin's desk-pad doodles, and was miffed when a Briton beat...