Word: interest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately, the library is heavily biased in favor of the graduate student. And this bias springs from only one thing: Widener's tremendous size. It is this great hulk that is stifling to undergraduates. Among the four million volumes which comprise the Harvard Library, only one hundred thousand books interest them. Yet these very books in demand are hidden away among innumerable tomes which contain the last printed word on any subject. Graduate students have access to the book stacks; they have stalls placed right where the books they need are shelved; now there is even a bathroom...
...still darker horse for 1940, little-known Francis Parnell Murphy, Governor of New Hampshire, latest GOP-Hopeful. Tax-cutting, budget-slashing Governor Murphy, Irish, Catholic, balding, is part owner of an eight-factory shoe company which makes 43,000 pairs of shoes daily, has long watched with interest the 1940 efforts of his predecessor, now Senator, GOP-Hopeful Henry Styles Bridges...
...with such rapidity during the last fortnight of my mission to Berlin that it proved impossible at the time to give any consecutive account of them. If I have the honor to do so now ... it is with the hope that such an account may be both of immediate interest to your Lordship and serve a purpose from the point of view of historical accuracy...
...farmer. But John Dewey spends most of his time thinking. Father of six children (two died young and he adopted another), he early learned to concentrate on his work amidst domestic bustle. To his classes he lectured in a monotonous voice, made no rhetorical effort whatever to interest his audience. Once, after droning on to graduate students for three solid hours on the meaning of the word "this," he concluded: "I think this is a little clearer...
Dean Landis yesterday urged the repeal of the arms embargo as "the best course for America's national interest...