Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The L-shaped reading room has been made so it can be converted into a hallway and offices if the occasion should arise. In the reading room there is a stairway which is the only access to the stacks and cubicles on the ground floor. Below this there is a...
Last week came I. P. U. election day. Fleshy, easygoing Senator Barkley of Kentucky prepared to settle the little matter in the privacy of his Library Committee Room. To his surprise, crowds of Congressmen flocked in. He hastily moved the meeting to a larger room, and then discovered what was...
In 1936, I.R.A. terrorist attacks on British soldiers in Eire and on those Irishmen who sought compromise with Britain became so embarrassing that Premier Eamon de Valera, an I.R.A. fighter before he became reconciled to the policy of compromise, ordered it disarmed, dissolved. But I.R.A. extremists were not to be...
When the retractable landing gear on one of Imperial Airways' three new luxurious, 22-passenger Frobishers jammed over Croydon Airport last month, its passengers jauntily drank a toast in champagne "To disaster-if it comes!" A mechanic got the wheels down pn that occasion.
One of the things that depress U. S. liberal churchmen is that the Church is supported largely by the upper and middle classes, by people who believe that God is a capitalist. Although many churchmen have accustomed their congregations to socially radical words from the pulpit, most parsons pipe the...