Word: janitoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fairbanks, assistant to the Comptroller, testified that the checks in question were of the sort distributed by the University Mail Service and that he had seen Knaus come to pick up outgoing mail at Lehman Hall. But under cross-examination he admitted that every noon the Lehman Hall janitor, instead of the regular carriers, took the outgoing mail to the University Post Office behind Widener Library
...fire broke out in a janitor's pushcart on the second floor of the Biology building at 2 p.m. yesterday. The Cambridge Fire Department said last night that the fire, which caused minor damage was started by a lighted match thrown into the cart...
Police reporters get many of their stories from what they call sources at headquarters," a broad category which can include anybody from a janitor to a captain. The Traveler's source was quick at producing a reason for Brown's trip to Boston. Wednesday night's Blue Streak edition of the Traveler led with DAHLIA MURDER HUNT SHIFTS TO HARVARD...
...obtained near the square . . . quiet and secluded, for Linden Street is used by only a few dozen people a day." The building had a "solid mahogany vestibule . . . marble floors . . . walls sheathed with antique oak . . . stairways lighted by stain glass windows . . . and speaking tubes and electric bells to the janitor...
...personal grudges," Mulvihill cited the accusations of Edward Chamberlain, janitor at Lowell House, that janitors are dissatisfied with him. Chamberlain's wife was refused a job, promised her by the University administration, to work as a maid during summer school, Mulvihill said; the union demanded the position go to a woman with more seniority...