Word: desks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does Mr. Reynolds try to fob off such a lame excuse. Perhaps we all are not honor students, but please give us credit for a reasonable amount of intelligence. Unfortunately I have at one time or another become quite intimate with the Cambridge police. A week ago the desk sergeant down at Central Square gave me the following bit of information: He could not understand why that parking area should be a fire hazard at night and not in the day. After all, less fires start from cigarettes when the students are asleep. During the daytime students are in class...
...considerable number of graduate students delay the question of getting a job by entering graduate schools; a few others by-pass the problem altogether by such dodges as taking a desk at the paternal office, or by making a Grand Tour. But for the majority each year, the question of a post-college livelihood becomes one of urgency as Commencement festivities approach...
...sitting here at my desk . . . [when] I happened to glance at your hypnotic "The Finest Time of the Year" [TIME, Oct. 11]. I got as far as "First graders brought home cutout paper pumpkins," and fled from the factory for a personal survey of Dubuque County under "October's bright blue sky" . . . I found everything in this part of the Upper Mississippi Valley as advertised in your excellent paper. The sumac along the river bluffs is in excellent shape, "the greatest corn crop in history" awaits picking, down in Nine Mile Island slough the advance guard of "honkers...
...limit, previously unannounced, went into effect about 6 p.m. after the first 25 guests had filed past the check-in desk. Swarms of evening Adams visitors were surprised by the ruling, which forced them to leave the House and return to their own dining halls...
...center will contain both single and double rooms. The singles will be 9 by 13 fact and equipped with desk, desk-chair, couch-bed, dresser closet and bookshelf. The doubles will be 18 by 13 feet, and will be designed so that they can be diviled by a curtain for privacy...