Word: filed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comes to classes in the morning and returns home at noontime. He often does not associate with other members of his class, and he frequently does not take advantage of the opportunities which the college offers. He represents a problem which is hardly noticed by the rank and file of men who live in college rooms, yet it is a problem which affects a considerable proportion of the members of each class...
Many an odd task has been performed and much queer data has been excavated with the cooperation of the Lehman switchboard manipulators. The General University Information Office (located in University Hall basement and on the KIR 7600 exchange) has a complete file of professors' home addresses, open hours of dining halls, location of class meetings, and other minutiae of a modern educational community. Non-University questions are often answered by Widener. During the Penn Game weekend, operators managed to put through an emergency call from New Hampshire to a Sophomore in Philly--finally locating him after two hours of assiduous...
...work on the Brandwag, proved in a series of well-publicized trials that its leaders got both ideas and money from a Nazi consul in Portuguese East Africa, only 400-odd miles from Johannesburg. Always a cagey fighter, Smuts did not crack down on the Brandwag rank & file, instead let them quit the organization while the quitting was good. He flew in a loaded bomber to the war zone in the Sudan just to show his people how near it was. This, on top of the smothering of Holland, suggested to Afrikanders that World War II was their...
...former Germans went names, duties, pay, addresses, backgrounds of virtually every Panama Canal employe; of men who work on the Army's secret bomb sight; of mechanics who install fire-control apparatus on battleships; of plane designers; of Army intelligence officers' clerks who file, record or distribute in-&-outgoing secret or confidential matter for war plans, communications, the State Department; names of every U. S. motorboat owner, of confidential secretaries to President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull; names of all machine-tool makers...
...THORNDYKE'S CRIME FILE-R. Austin Freeman - Dodd, Mead ($2 50) Reprints of The Eye of Osiris, The Mystery of Angelina Frood, Mr. Pottermack's Oversight, full-length and always good. Also included is an excellent essay on the art of the detective story...