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...system will involve putting metal sensitizing strips in every book and magazine and installing a detection device. When a person walks past a special gate with a book that has not been desensitized at the circulation desk, the gate will lock and an alarm will sound...
...mistake, he left Farrell in the on-deck circle. In the seventh, Farrell led off for the third time and for the third time Harvard tallied runs. By the time Vierra smashed a 400ft. gopher ball to left center. Harvard had nabbed eight runs in two innings and a lock on the opener...
...hurries across the stage, always one step ahead of the police. As prostitutes, gamblers, street vendors, con men and an intoxicated boxer, the actors recreate the Times Square atmosphere so well that Dean Epps might very well ask them to take a semester off and warn their roommates to lock up their valuables...
Upon learning of such things at a distance, most men feel not only revulsion, but also a proper urge to enact society's revenge. Lock the bums away forever. At the same time, they can still imagine what it feels like to be present at the atrocities, even for the briefest instance; every life has analogues of its own. The essential circumstance is that of the mob, always a terrifying entity, whatever its goal. One thinks of lynch mobs before rape mobs, but all mobs have the same appearances and patterns, the same compulsion to tear things down...
March 24, 9:40 a.m.--The lock on locker #669 at Dillon Field House was damaged by unknown means. Nothing was missing. No suspicious persons were seen and no arrests have been made...