Word: laments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...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...
...building, which will occupy the present site of the Dana-Palmer House on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Quincy Street, was endowed by the gift of Thomas W. Lament '92 The library will house an extensive collection of undergraduate study materials, now scattered through such locations as Widener Library and the Union and Roylsten reading rooms...
Opening of the Lament Library is planned for the fall of 1948, and will relieve present crowded conditions in Widener...
Spinner H. Slichter, Lament University Professor, predicted and era of economic prosperity for the United States as its production volume rises from the present rate of $194,000,000,000 to $300,000,000,000 by 1960, the Associated Press reported last night...