Word: number
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number and variety of their costumes and disguises are countless . . . This eccentricity makes the problem of learning the names of a new class a formidable one for a man. He sees the girls on Monday morning looking like the wrath of God with hair uncombed and overalls pulled on over their pajamas, and gets to know them thus. He sees them again on Friday afternoon looking more glamorous than Conover models and doesn't recognize them...
...fake, installed because many travelers seemed inclined to judge a ship's reliability by the number of stacks...
...library has its historical curios: among them, Harvard's first character (1650), the one surviving book from John Harvard's library, and Edwin Booth's last cigar. But its more significant treasures are the great numbers of early printed books, many of them dating from before 1500, and its "author" collections. Quite a number of books are on view. (behind glass) in the Library's lobby or in the lavish exhibition room...
...private diary--letters, manuscripts, and critical works about him. Houghton's most famous is the Keats' collection, the world's best, much of which is one exhibit in the Library's special Keats room. The collection has many of the poet's letters and the manuscripts of a number of his poems, notably "The Eve of St. Agnes" and "To Autumn." Other collections range from John Donne and George Herbert to E. A. Robinson and Thomas Wolfe. Philip Hofer's Graphic Arts Collection is another prize feature of the Library--a summary of the best in book design from Babylonian...
...Student Council has just finished conducting an election. In the process of nominating, voting, and counting ballots a ludicrous number of irregularities occurred. None was unavoidable. The Class Committee election could have come off without a hitch if it had been properly managed...