Word: main
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...service as a relic of shabby inefficiency, but no harsh words do it quite the justice of The Great Billion Dollar Mail Case, which brought Edward R. Murrow back to a new season of See It Now on CBS this week. Cameras behind the scenes of Manhattan's main post office caught the overwhelming frustration of an archaic system, dispirited employees and a staggering, endless load of work. They also recorded pent-up grievances of clerks, letter carriers and their boss, Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield, presented the contrast of smooth modernity in the mails of Switzerland...
...community, for example, is a rather tightly-knit one. On the student level this is especially obvious. The entire student body dines at two tables in the main dining hall. In this atmosphere each student comes to know all the others, and everyone knows what everyone else is taking in the way of courses...
...books, is used both for studying and relaxation. The brown paper covering the shelves in the background is used to protect the books during the summer, when the Marlboro School of Music takes over the campus. Two students chat in Marlboro's snack-bar and canteen, located in the main schoolbuilding, Dalrymple Hall, named after the carpenter who built it. All the classes, the largest of which number fifteen, meet in rustic, naked-beamed rooms and laboratories in this building...
Forrester A. Clark, Jr. '58, President of Hasty Pudding, said that the organization's main hall has a capacity of about 40 beds. The hall can be shut off from the rest of the building, and was chosen because of its kitchen and sanitary facilities, and its closeness to the Hygene Building. The operation of the infirmary center is not expected to interfere with the Pudding's regular activities...
...might be well to explain at the outset, is also the name of a newspaper comic strip character who, for some unclear reason, comes to life to haunt his creator. The fact that Rumple is invisible to everybody else in the cast provides Irving Phillips' book with its main source of humor. Though scarcely original, the joke is still intermittently funny...