Word: sanctum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Houses use Newell Boathouse instead of Weld. If Newell were assigned to a group of House crews in rotating yeas, no unfairness would be created in the matter of walking distance to and from the respective boat house, and such an innovation, although it might destroy Newell as the sanctum sanctorum of the University crews, would far outweigh this doubtful disadvantage by relieving Weld of its late afternoon congestion...
...first time in its 22-year-history, the Art Directors Club this time crashed the gates of the holiest sanctum of the U.S. art world, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, proudly hung its 301 hand-picked covers and ads near the museum's austere obelisks and mummies. Trends...
...BODY IN THE LIBRARY -Agatha Christie -Dodd, Mead ($2). A female corpse discovered in the sanctum of an uxorious English colonel (retired) titillates the gossipy countryside, puzzles Scotland Yard no end, until Miss Marple, crown princess of spinster sleuths, takes an'unobtrusive hand. Genuine old-crusted Christie...
Last week Editor Daniels added a commentary on his Navy days: "Even when I was 'absent without leave' from the sanctum during the eight years as Secretary of the Navy in the Woodrow Wilson administration,'' chuckled old Josephus, "I thought of myself as managing editor of the Navy rather than as a Cabinet official...
...headquarters in New York City felt the pinch of shame. This sanctum of super-sleuths had been entered by stealth and pilfered with profit. Almost worse, two detectives of the city police force succeeded where the Federal men had failed, snagged a Negro porter who, they claimed, confessed the theft. The loot: two expensive miniature cameras, a telephoto lens. The accused: Charles Beverly Grayson, a WPA porter who had once worked at the Federal Court House, New York headquarters...