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...patience is being sorely taxed . . . when I see people who lament high prices and openly declare . . . that rationing of any kind is not for them. Maybe they did get their dander up about rationing once before, but that was forced. This time it is voluntary, and the people who should know say that it will reduce the fat prices we have to pay now. . . . What in hell is wrong with our people that they won't cooperate, when it is to their own benefit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 10, 1947 | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Singing is her only love. "I have no beau." Susie sighs. "Men are wonder full but they always run the other way." One of the songs the successful vocalist sings these days is an old melancholy lament, 'I'm sad and I'm Lonely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Susan Reed Peers Over Zither at Networkers, Calls Them Shy Wolves | 10/23/1947 | See Source »

...week summer students, hunched over tables in the isolated quiet of Harvard's Widener reading room, were equally oblivious to the roar outside the windows. The roar came from bulldozers, hollowing out the foundation for a new and surprisingly modernistic annex (see cut) given by Harvardman Thomas W. Lament, '92. Despite its 4,900,000 books, its 125 miles of stacks and its accommodations for 4,500 readers, the Harvard University Library was feeling cramped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Buried Treasure | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...Lament Library, to be finished in the fall of '48, the undergraduate will be able to browse freely through the stacks for the first time, pick and choose his books at will. He will still have to stand inspection as he leaves, to prove that he is not making off with any of Harvard's bound treasures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Buried Treasure | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

Opening of the Lament Library is planned for the fall of 1948, and will relieve present crowded conditions in Widener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Construction of Lamont Library to Begin Next Month | 5/24/1947 | See Source »

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