Word: desks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...careless enough to lose your Study Card, you will be instructed at the Registrar's Office to go to Room 812 for a replacement. Which is of little interest in itself. What is of interest is that, on the main desk in Room 812, you will see a two-page Xerox edition of "Directive on the Typing of Study Cards." You may read it as you wait, though to do everyone justice, the wait isn't long. The directive describes at length the fine points of study-card-typing . . . how to clean typewriter keys, what sort of eraser...
...that. On his desk lies a splintered canoe paddle with which he punishes boys who make trouble. Another weapon is the public address system, which Dulin uses to chastise errant students. This fall, for example, he publicly raked over some football players for "tugging on ripple" (cheap wine). Unorthodox in style and cyclonic in energy, the principal is often at odds with his superiors, as when he called off school the day the Detroit Tigers won the World Series last year. "Let me be the judge of when days off are relevant," says Dulin. "I might want to give them...
...President, like Dwight Eisenhower, prefers to learn what the press and the networks are saying from a news summary that his staff will prepare for him every morning. The large red-mahogany desk that Nixon had used as Vice President was trundled over from the Capitol. Ornately carved in front, it had been the White House desk of William McKinley and Woodrow Wilson...
Cabot has also installed a downstairs buzzer system. The front and back doors remain locked all day, and no one without a key can get into the dorm without buzzing the girl at the bells desk for admittance...
...life had taken some two billion years. (Biologist H. J. Muller has graphically illustrated how long it took by imagining the span of time since life first appeared on earth as a trip along a tape running 90 miles from beyond New Haven to the center of a desk on Wall Street. Man appears 7 ½ feet from the center.) Darwin's theory did not suggest that man as a biological animal had improved in the 5,000 years of more or less civilized history. There was no real proof either that evolution toward a still higher life form...