Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, May 12, there are reported words said to have been spoken by me to Samuel Putnam, in Paris. I cannot call him to mind, though I may have seen him at times in the cafés there...
Running concurrently with the regular summer academic course, the two vocational schools are expected to attract a total of 75 women. Any overflow from Cabot Hall will be quarteded in off-campus Putnam House at 69 Brattle Street...
Some day, the biochemists may be able to brew a magic concoction that will improve man's intelligence. At Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons, three researchers-Drs. Frederick T. Zimmerman, Bessie B. Burgemeister and Tracy J. Putnam-have reported some interesting experiments with children who were given regular feedings of glutamic acid...
...century later only the Librarian himself knew how to find the one million ill-catalogued books, and accounts were short $30,000 because a stack of uncashed money orders had been temporarily lost in the piles. That was when President McKinley picked a scholarly lawyer-librarian named Herbert Putnam to straighten things out. This week, eight Presidents later, Librarian Emeritus Putnam at 85 still showed up every day at the office, though first Archibald MacLeish (in 1939) and then Evans (in 1945) had taken over the main...
...Before Putnam, the library was not interested in lending books; it preserved them for posterity. Putnam had a different idea: "We are ourselves a posterity." He began a system of lending books to other libraries, made the public welcome. Last year 669,740 readers used the library's 20 reading rooms, and 764 scholars researched and wrote books in its cubicles. A "faculty" of 25 fellows and 22 consultants (among them: Poet Karl Shapiro) constantly survey and "interpret" the library collections, tell the Librarian what to get and what to throw away, help visiting scholars. The library...