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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic cause of all such maneuvers is that there are simply not enough books to go around. This is not unexpected, but in many instances there is a whole shelf full of copies of one book while there are only two or three copies of another that contains an equal amount of assigned reading. In some cases this is due to departments that won't purchase enough volumes, in others to professors who assign out-of-print editions. Lamont officials say they try, to adjust the number of copies of a book to student demand as much as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off the Shelf | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...nose and a little round belly that shook when he laughed like a bowl full of jelly." While originally applied to one S. Claus, these lines also serve well to describe another revered wintertime wizard, one P. Limmer of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts--Peter Limmer, Meister Schumacher...

Author: By Robert J. Blinken, | Title: Boots, Beer Make Limmer Tradition | 11/12/1949 | See Source »

...Limmer establishment works very much on the old world system, with the two sons, both unmarried, living at home and working with Papa and Mama in the shop. Peter Jr. estimates it would take one of them alone two full days to make a pair of boots. The shoes are easier and the Limmers can make about three pairs...

Author: By Robert J. Blinken, | Title: Boots, Beer Make Limmer Tradition | 11/12/1949 | See Source »

...most of us, if we have the urge to try it, the trail to literary success will be a long one, full of overflowing wastebaskets, piles of rejection slips and tens of thousands of unprinted words. And most of us will never make...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: ON THE SHELF | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

Brynteson said that for his purposes the sale could be limited to people under 14. He just thought that "As long as the H.A.A. is going in debt, they might as well go in debt with a full Stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Suggests HAA Sell Gamins Extra Game Seats | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

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