Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite this, Radcliffe isn't really co-educational. It's Joint Instruction. To understand Joint Instruction, one must go back, back to a day in 1878 when President Eliot walked into his office and found a letter lying on his desk. "Dear Sir," it said. "I am engaged in perfecting a plan which shall afford women opportunities for carrying their studies forward further than it is possible for them to do in this country (except possibly at Smith) . . ." The letter was signed by one Arthur Gilman, a Cambridge historian...
...process consists of taking the card for the book desired and stamping it. It then does to the out desk to ascertain if the book is in the stacks. From here, a stack girl takes the card, goes and gets the book, and returns it to the circulation desk, where the card is stamped again...
...effort to increase the efficiency of its system, Widener Library has installed a time stamp. This stamp puts the time when a call card is received at the circulation desk on one side and the time when the book requested reaches the desk on the other. In this way the library hopes to answer critics who claim that an hour or more is the usual wait for a book from the stacks...
...week, the presidential desk was clear and the crew had polished up the brass on the good yacht Williamsburg. Harry Truman packed up his white wool yachting cap and a covey of his best speechwriters and set out for a lazy eight-day session of waterborne poker, napping and perhaps some occasional phrasemaking in preparation for the political lists. It was to be a comfortable trip. The Williamsburg wasn't going any place in particular-just cruising along Chesapeake...
...faced the car. With a shotgun and a .45, they punched four holes in the windshield. The first slugs knocked Drury's hat to the seat; the rest plowed into his head and body. An hour later Bill Drury was dead-without a hat on. Upstairs on his desk was a telephone message: the Kefauver committee had called to say it would arrange to give him the necessary protection until the heat...