Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days. The reason is simple: Philip J. McNiff is seldom around to be asked. The familiar Reading Room superintendent is spending most of his time getting ready for the opening of Lamont Library--selecting the books, planning the interior, figuring out the systems of open and closed reserves. In short, he is getting the chance to put his ideas about the "service nature" of a college library into effect...
...promotion to head of the cataloging department for the whole Newton system. But he still was unsatisfied, and in 1942 he abandoned Newton's security for Harvard's futurity and went to work in the reference department of Widener. His eye to the future seems not to have been short-sighted, for within a year's time he was named Superintendent of the Reading Room, a position blessed with headaches commensurate to its stature...
After missing its first nine tries from the floor in the second half, the varsity finally knotted the count at 30-all with 15 minutes to play, when Hauptfuhrer hawked a pair of short deuces sandwiching Brady's two charity tosses...
...advertising was confined to the ever-popular subject of sex or to typical political promises of unlimited liquor. The possibilities of the air-waves did not escape the attention of two candidates, who played "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette" from their Holworthy window all yesterday afternoon, until cut short by a University police raid...
Every Saturday at three o'clock the fifteen minute program, now dealing with the accomplishments of the 1947 General Assembly, is beamed overseas by WRUL, Boston and New York, the only independent short-wave "propaganda" station in America...