Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard should be ashamed," asserted Robert O. Muller '34, who compared the graffito unfavorably with designs made in desk grooves by bored students "during some of the lesser lectures...
...craft of "Lamontmanship" arises precisely from this inadequacy. At nine in the morning, a practitioner of the craft arises, renews the book he checked out the evening before, hides it somewhere in the stacks or on a desk during the day, and returns briefly in the evening to do the reading. As a result, book turn-over in Lamont is reduced far below optimum levels. By 10 in the morning, all copies of a certain reserve book may be circulating in the library, although none of them...
...should be instituted. Books could be checked out three times per day--perhaps at 9 a.m., 3 p.m., and 9 p.m.--so that students would not be confined to Lamont itself as a study area. To facilitate the operation of this system, reserve books would be due back at Desk 3 and Desk 1 thirty minutes before the start of the next check-out period...
...then worked as an all-round apprentice for the Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin, leaving two years later as city hall and courthouse reporter. In September, 1949, he took the job as education writer for the Hartford Times, and, after a year and a half, moved to the copy desk. Eight months later, "I made a success of myself and became a sports writer...
...town, knows them well; jungle vines are spreading over the mill and pigs root through his crumbling office. "It's here," he says. "No doubt about it-all the riches on earth. I don't know how to get it out, but dammit"-he pounded his desk so hard the Scotch bottle jumped-"it's here! We need men, real...