Word: desks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four weeks ago, when the horse chestnuts were ripening along the Charles, cross country coach Mikkola pulled a list of past performance statistics from his desk at Dillon Field House and said, "We will have some good men. We will surprise a lot of teams...
...even allow the use of outdoor incinerators," the Central Square desk sergeant reported last night. "So far, almost everyone has cooperated," he said, "but any instances of violation will be quickly investigated...
Today Poetry's editorial desk is in an office on Erie Street, the Bohemian fringe of the Gold Coast. Harriet Monroe's desk is shared by two poets whom she "discovered" when they were undergraduates: Marion Strobel, a youngish (52), energetic grandmother who coaxe? subsidies for Poetry from well-to-do friends of her socially prominent doctor-husband, and writes whodunits in her spare time; and tall, handsome George Dillon, 40, an elusive bachelor who won a 1932 Pulitzer Prize for a volume of lyrics (The Flowering Stone...
Unable to compete on this favored level, undergraduates must rely on the circulation desk to supply those books not included on reading room shelves. With overflowing stalls and misplaced books defeating an already poor circulation system, well over forty percent of the books requested cannot be delivered. A more effective method for recalling stall caches and the enforcement of stack regulations regarding misplaced texts is necessary if Widener hopes to give undergraduates any degree of satisfaction...
...circulation system inadequate in its technical aspects for the needs of a brimming College further hampers the library's efforts to bridge the time until Lamont is completed. With the circulation desk and paging stations on the eighth of ten stack levels, the time required to fill a book order ranges from fifteen minutes to three-quarters of an hour, as against five minutes at New York's Public Library. By dropping the circulation desk to the ground floor and installing a much discussed book conveyor at each stack level, Widener patrons could obtain necessary references with maximum speed...