Word: nook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Post's dingy third-floor offices, she works in a nook fenced off by burlap screens. At first mail was skimpy and other Post employes wrote letters on order, for her to answer. Now she gets anywhere from ten to 100-odd letters a day, from readers willing to risk a furious answer to get their problems (anonymously) into print...
Mention of laundry, that bane of every WAVE's existence, brings to mind thoughts of a unique institution here at Briggs Hall, the Alcove. The Alcove is no secluded nook, as its name might imply, where one may while away spare moments in intimate conversation with a friend. It is, rather, the equivalent of the corner drugstore, the village post-office, or somebody's backyard. It is a quaint combination of laundry, shower-room, and telephone booth that none but a Navy mind could have dreamed up. Here of a sunny afternoon, any day after four o'clock, the following...
Leading a posse into every nook and cranny of Dunster House yesterday in a secret room-by-room investigation, Eugene C. Benyas '43, Dunster music librarian, sought meticulously for several albums of Victoria records discovered missing from the library record cases...
...couldn't quite see all of Martinelli as he was engaged in his gab-fest with the high muckymuck, so I looked around for a more satisfactory vantage point. Besides, I hate standing up. I finally saw a little nook half-hidden almong some pieces of scenery, and I figured I could sit in it and see the whole opera. I maneuvered myself through the throng and crawled into the opening that led into my secluded box seat. Just as I put my foot down on the last step the lights flared up on the stage and I heard...
...Germany's Gerhard Domagk, who was awarded but could not accept a Nobel Prize (1939) for his work with prontosil (forerunner of sulfanilamide). In 1939 Dr. Benjamin Frank Miller of the University of Chicago was looking for an agent which would carry germicides into every nook & cranny of the teeth. Paging through LIFE one day, he ran across a picture of American Cyanamid's famous ducks being scuttled with its "Aerosol" wetting agent. Miller tried the same product on teeth, found that it penetrated everywhere with a germicide. Then he discovered that synthetic wetting agents themselves were also...