Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Globe-Democrat's city desk began to get calls a few minutes after Kappesser's speech, hurriedly dispatched another man to cover the concert. In its midnight edition, H.R.B.'s two-paragraph review was replaced by a glowing, eleven-paragraph story headlined: CHORAL SOCIETY'S CONCERT IS MATURE AND IMPRESSIVE...
...read it over. "Dear draft board," it said, "please send me my deferment per President Truman's order of April first." It was a good letter, thought Vag, tight and to the point. He found an envelope under a pile of Coop bills in the top drawer of his desk, slipped in the letter, and took a stamp from the top of his roommate's bureau. Then he went out the door of the entry, into the tentative brightness of the sun, and across the quad to the mailbox. He stood for a minute reading the little card with...
...hotplate which stands in his bedroom. For the next two hours and a half, he works in his bedroom on papers set out the night before. At 9, after a walk in the palace gardens, he joins Madame Auriol for breakfast. By 9:30 he is back at his desk receiving his personal secretaries, (including Paul Auriol, who lives with his wife and two sons in another wing of the palace...
Reasons for backing the merger include the following: the new charging desk would save steps for people taking out books, the space now occupied by the public catalogue could be used for other purposes, and the annual saving with consolidation would be $12,000 annually...
...conclusion, Metcalf's critics note that Widener is more a research library than a circulation one. "A few extra steps to withdraw books is not serious. Living up to the spirit of Dr. Metcalf's revisions, it might be best to put the charging desk just inside the basement door, a few feet from Massachusetts Avenue...