Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lamont bookseekers are perpetually optimistic, but they usually find several obstacles in their way. One of these has already been largely removed-the practice of taking a book out overnight and keeping it for a few days. In an effort to keep books on the shelves, librarian McNiff is sending out messengers to collect volumes that are not in by 9 a.m. The 75 cent charge, McNiff insists, is a messenger fee, and not a fine. This represents a good idea in a good cause and has been a success, certainly financially. But there are other reasons for the books...
Like most Rhodes scholars I like it here, enjoy my work, find the English hospitable and kind. The Rhodes scholarships, to my mind, are the best use to which diamonds have ever been...
Seven U.S. Senators on a European fact-finding tour reached Luxembourg to find U.S. Minister Perle Mesta as good a hostess as ever. Mrs. Mesta greeted Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas with a kiss, then whisked him and his colleagues through a giddy two-day whirl culminating in a 55 guest dinner party. To round out the welcome, an overexuberant Luxembourg band serenaded the Senators (four of them from the South) with a lusty performance of Marching through Georgia...
...Favor? Drug manufacturers, catering to the hopeful eagerness of snifflers, have been trying to find an anti-histaminic which would not cause side effects. The Nepera Chemical Co. of Yonkers, N.Y. came close with neohetramine. Several doctors reported it less toxic, and toxic to fewer people, than other drugs in the same family. In September the Food & Drug Administration, satisfied that the average customer would not be upset by the recommended dosage, authorized its sale over the counter...
...Very rarely do I find an atheist . . . People aren't so smart-alecky any more. They're scared...