Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...standard of the fiction in the two magazines is far below that of much of the material written for the College's advanced composition courses. The magazines, which exist as an outlet for student writing, are crying for the good material that is left to languish on a shelf or on the desk of some New Yorker secretary. Student readers and editors both suffer; while every literary hopeful is losing a unique chance to publish and be read, even if only by a small following...
...action and adventure. But they may jib at Critic Daiches' regret that Stevenson "arrived so late at the discovery of the kind of writing in which alone real greatness lies." Real greatness is not as choosy as its critics, and Stevenson's best adventure stories share a shelf with the Iliad, the Canterbury Tales, the Arabian Nights, Romeo and Juliet, Robinson Crusoe, The Gold Bug and The Three Musketeers...
...months, at the Army Chemical Warfare Services' Camp Detrick, Md., a team of bacteriologists, physicians, chemists, engineers, geneticists and biophysicists worked in secret. Their job: to find the best way to produce a rain of germy death for World War II. Unused, their discoveries are still on the shelf...
There was a whole shelf of books on Russia and the Russian problem, ranging in viewpoint from Earl Browder's pro-Soviet War or Peace with Russia? to ex-Communist James Burnham's The Struggle for the World, which regards compromise with Russia as dangerous folly. Hal Lehrman went to the Balkans as a pro-Soviet correspondent, had his eyes opened by the totalitarian steamroller in action, described it convincingly in Russia's Europe...
Upon return, this slip will simply be removed and the book put directly on the shelf. There should thus be no delay while the borrower's signed card is located, since the slip of paper can be checked against it later...