Word: librarians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bedroom apartments rented for $35 a month, three-bedroom homes for $65. But gradually, townspeople sensed the tightness of their welfare-city cocoon. No family could own its home. Not general necessity but General Electric determined the site of stores and set their rents. Police, firemen, even the city librarian were G.E. employees. More and more, Richland residents began to move out to nearby Pasco and Kennewick to own their homes and chat over the fence with non-G.E. neighbors. But not everyone in Richland was inclined to make a break. In 1955 a petition for incorporation...
This is to register one librarian's appreciation of "Best Sellers." To a library in a rural community this means much. It not only keeps the library abreast of what is being read, but is a valuable aid in ordering the newest books...
...sidewalk. When a passing student had reached him he was already dead. It was an ironic season for him to die. Autumn had come, and registration for classes had just begun. There was a large funeral procession, which included the business manager of the University and the gray-haired librarian who worked at the circulation desk, as well as the entire department. Briggs, Ford, and Hall were among the pallbearers. Even after classes had been going for some weeks, Ford and Hall found themselves still depressed. Over coffee they talked about Greg and what he had meant to them...
...proposal, drafted last night by the Freshman Union Committee, "may be feasible," according to William B. Ernst '39, assistant librarian for Undergraduate Services. The Union Committee will present the plan to the Student Council for its consideration...
Author Jacobs brings to this study of "the creation and recreation of language" a proficiency in more than a dozen tongues. Brooklyn-born, onetime chief interpreter for the military government in Berlin, and now librarian of the Linguistics Department at the University of Jerusalem, he ranges through history, religion, love, and 37 different languages in covering everything from oxymoron (word paradoxes) to lallation (the pronunciation of l for r that is common among Chinese who speak foreign languages). A sampling of some of Author Jacobs' observations...