Word: desks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Widener Library's circulation desk will continue its two-week checkout system during the Christmas holidays, the Boylston, Union, and Widener reading rooms will not permit students to take books home over the vacation...
...secret disclosed by the poll were framed and hung over the writing desk of every women about to select gifts for a Harvard undergraduates, it would read: "Don't overlook the obvious...
...Lyle Shafer '48 at Leverett K-41, Lloyd I. Rudolph '48 at Duster A-21, Austin L. Wyman, Jr. '48 at Adams C-26, Daniel D. Chabris '48 at Kirkland G-11, Leland E. Holly II '48 at Eilot 0-31, Paul J. Douglas '50 at the Dudley Hall desk, or 14 Plympton Street by mail...
...made Camillien feel good. While congratulatory wires and letters piled up on his desk, he lolled in his high-backed chair, chain-smoked, outlined his formula for political success. "I'm good-natured but quick-tempered," said he. "Also they tell me I am bighearted. I will never leave a man in a poor fix if I can help it. No one leaves my office without some hope. But I don't mince words. Sometimes I tell them it's their own damned fault they got into trouble in the first place. Then I try to help...
...Nichols, whose holdings are conservatively estimated at $15,000,000, lives with his wife in a mansion in the Country Club District (his two sons are in the building business), but he still spends most of his days and three evenings a week behind his office desk on city-planning projects. J.C. thinks they are of prime importance because "when you rear children in a good neighborhood, they will go out and fight Communism...