Word: keeps
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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...
...help, private educational institutions will go down. We receive heart-rending pleas for money from conscientious people who want to help war-torn people and home-less children whose homes we have helped to destroy, and in the same mail requests for gifts to the Harvard Fund to keep the University going. Then Harvard bows, pushes a $10,000 chair under our bottom and says, "Pray, make yourself comfortable...
...grim Himalayas. As they crossed and recrossed treacherous river rapids, babies and baggage splashed repeatedly into the icy stream. At 15,800-foot-high Yngi Pass, the hearts of the horses began to pound dangerously. Vincoe Paxton helped slit the beasts' nostrils so that bleeding would keep their arteries from bursting. She swatted maggots from the festering wounds torn by saddle ropes on the animals' sides. Nausea, dizziness, frostbite and insomnia meanwhile began to affect the travelers themselves. "It made us feel like idiots," said Vincoe. In 18,600-foot Karakoram Pass, the sun burned their faces...
More important than this is the shrewd handicapping system employed by the lottery racketeers. Spotters are hired in all parts of the country to keep a close line on the teams which they are considering for card use. The Harvard Holy Cross game is a case in point...
Experts today assume that Gutenberg made the change after he discovered he was not putting enough material on each page to keep the Bible the size he wanted...