Word: floor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They couldn't get trains into the fourth floor of the Business School's Baker Library but they did get in almost everything else associated with locomotives...
...Railroad Museum, placed in the tiled-floor room when the Library was built, doesn't attempt to deal with the complete history of railroading. But it contains examples of rails dating back to the start of steam transportation, as well as exhibits like ancient passes and valuable sketches of actual engines...
...other words," Mason said, "the whole room is a confuses mess. The only normal thing in it is the ceiling is parallel to the floor...
Otherwise, there were the usual conferences and brief interviews; and as always, the stack of "reading-for-tonight" papers on the floor mounted to the toppling point. At 50, Robert Hutchins was slightly mellower in manner. But he could still get excited-now puffing a Fatima and pacing about, now plumping himself down in an easy chair to declaim across the room. Long ago, he had made up his mind what the ideal university should be. He thought Chicago was beginning to show signs of becoming one. "It is not a very good university," he said recently, in typical Hutchins...
Ninety graduate student alumni of Stanford and California will convene on the third floor of Phillips Brooks House at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow to listen to a piped in broadcast of the Stanford-California football game...