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Word: righting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 in the stacks so graduate students do not have to walk to the basement like other library users. Thus the graduate benefits at the expense of the undergraduate...

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

...Professor: Monday morning quarterback school is called to order, gentlemen. Carl Snavely of Cornell and Red Blaik of Dartmouth go to the head of the class this morning. Step right up, boys...

Author: By D. D. P., | Title: WHATS HIS NUMBER? | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Reader Dean M. Kerl is damn right...

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

...ready to make this gness," he says. "If the warring parties don't conclude peace right now, if real war starts, there will be no real victor and no real vanquished. Europe will be in ruins, and millions of lives will have been stupidly sacrificed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sorokin Says He Prefers an Unjust Peace to Long Lasting European War | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

...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 careful thought could satisfy themselves that repeal was the best course...

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

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