Word: deweyitis
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...fastest-growing trends in travel is theme hotels. There are concepts for every taste: from the elegant Library Hotel in midtown Manhattan, where room numbers are based on the Dewey decimal system of classifying books (900.004 for the Asian History room), to the adventurous Jules' Undersea Lodge at the bottom of the Emerald Lagoon in Key Largo, Florida, where guests scuba dive to the entry of their underwater accommodations. "This is a real trend for the traveler who has been there, done that," says Mary Tabacchi, professor of hotel management at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration. "There...
...fastest-growing trends in travel is theme hotels. There are concepts for every taste: from the elegant Library Hotel in midtown Manhattan, where room numbers are based on the Dewey decimal system of classifying books (900.004 for the Asian History room), to the adventurous Jules' Undersea Lodge at the bottom of the Emerald Lagoon in Key Largo, Fla., where guests scuba dive to the entry of their underwater accommodations. "This is a real trend for the traveler who has been there, done that," says Mary Tabacchi, professor of hotel management at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration. "There...
...McConnell 9:29.62, 3. Gray 9:37.80. 200 Freestyle: 1. Lawler 1:42.49, 3. Knepley 1:44.39. 100 Backstroke: 1. Shevchik 51.39, 2. Cromwell 52.12. 100 Breaststroke: 1. Grant 57.72, 2. Lin 58.62, 3. Gentilucci 58.84. 200 Butterfly: 1. Lawler 1:51.88, 2. Smith 1:53.69, 3. Dewey 1:55.35. 50 Freestyle: 2. Krna 21.37, 3. Knepley 21.64. One-Meter Diving: 1. Rybalko 304.64, 2. Roy 274.72. 100 Freestyle: 2. Knepley 46.84, 3. Lawler 46.99. 200 Backstroke: 1. Shevchik 1:50.15, 2. Cromwell 1:53.45. 200 Breaststroke: 1. Grant 2:05.60, 2. Gentilucci 2:06.77, 3. Siroky...
...stroll through the library’s stacks just outside her open door reveal books ranging from feminism to motherhood to widowhood. Here, like in most libraries, the Dewey Decimal system reigns supreme. Jewish women and Muslim women share a shelf in the section marked 296 to 297. Aviatrixes reside in 629.1, with an entire section devoted to books about Amelia Earhart. Just across the aisle, lesbians occupy the 306.76 section...
...still plenty of room for the stacks, the John Harvard statue and Primal Scream in any young lad’s agenda book. Let’s just say, at this time of year, baseball should have (slightly) more prevalence in one’s mind than Dewey Decimal fornication, University landmark urination or aerobic genitalia demonstration...