Word: libraryful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in the days before World War II, Harvard's burgeoning collection of rare books and manuscripts overflowed the confines of Widener's so-called Treasure Room, and began to encroach on the rest of the library's second floor. The University appropriated some of the then-vacant land to...
The great part of the Houghton collection lies in the vast, rambling stacks which run underneath the building, with an annex under Lamont, reached by a long echoing corridor. The stack area is air conditioned, with the air being washed, filtered, and run between electrically charged plates, to prevent disintegration...
It was not without murmered whimperings that the plans for Quincy and the Leverett House extension were greeted. Quincy rises like an aircraft carrier in dry dock; and the Leverett towers will reflect a Miami-Beach-hotel flamboyance complemented by a library which combines the best architectural features of a...
For the first time in U.S. history, Congress has more Roman Catholics in its membership than any other religious group. A tabulation released by the Library of Congress listed 103 Roman Catholic Congressmen (91 in the House and twelve in the Senate), of whom 88 are Democrats and 15 Republicans...
Enough has been said of the comparative splendor of Quincy-with its spacious suites, privacy, elevators, refrigerators in every room, and the modern Lamont-like library-to raise a serious problem concerning the relative deficiency in the other seven Houses.