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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately, the library is heavily biased in favor of the graduate student. And this bias springs from only one thing: Widener's tremendous size. It is this great hulk that is stifling to undergraduates. Among the four million volumes which comprise the Harvard Library, only one hundred thousand books interest them. Yet these very books in demand are hidden away among innumerable tomes which contain the last printed word on any subject. Graduate students have access to the book stacks; they have stalls placed right where the books they need are shelved; now there is even a bathroom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIBRARY: PRIMARILY FOR GRADUATES | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

There are nearly one million persons in Kentucky of voting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Reader Licht underestimates Senator Chandler's ability. There are nearly one and a half million persons in Kentucky of voting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

After a round million words of debate, the Senate has finally come to the point: it has repealed the arms embargo. Everyone, repealist and anti-repealist alike, must be glad that a final decision has been reached, for it has been obvious from the start that the Administration had the votes. Further debate could only serve to keep the pot boiling, and the minds of the people in confusion. It was an issue that must have disturbed those who gave it only casual attention. On first sight, both sides seemed to be right, and only those who gave the matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHEN THE HURLY-BURLY'S DONE | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

PINKHAM NOTCH, N. H.--Out of the teeth of the worst autumn blizzard in Mount Washington's recent history, a girl and two youths trudged today, alive and well, to confound forest rangers who had given them only "one chance in a million" to survive...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/24/1939 | See Source »

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