Word: desks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freshmen will get a chance between new and April vacation to sample House food. Tickets for the free meals are available at the checker's desk in the Union at the following hours...
Russell Long was sorry, he said, that his first formal words had to be spoken under such circumstances, i.e., talking to death a Senate rule against filibustering. His desk was piled high, he said, turning on the old Huey quaver, with letters from the poor, the sick, the disabled, pleading for his help. But this other matter had to be taken care of first. He had to protect those same people from a change in the Senate rules "which some future oppressive group could use to grind them to dust...
...many ways, Martha was a fine helpmeet. When one of Ray's many wives-a Mrs. Myrtle Young-went to the Chicago cops and complained that Ray had taken her savings, steel-nerved Martha stood behind her and winked significantly at the desk sergeant. The sergeant advised Myrtle to see a psychiatrist; she died soon afterward of a cerebral hemorrhage...
...venture in recent Harvard history, end later as a staffer in the News Office, he seemed headed, before the war, for a permanent berth in the Fourth Estate. Four years of administrative responsibility on an aircraft carrier made all the difference and put the erstwhile leg-man behind a desk once...
Ballots for commuters will be on tap at a desk in Agassiz House from this morning to tomorrow afternoon. Dormitory students will find their ballots in hall mailboxes today at dinner, and will have 24 hours to place them in locked vote boxes...