Word: snuffbox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campus panting ("I hope to die on Saturday," he would say, "so there'll be no necessity to miss classes"). To earn money for his collecting, he started the Armstrong Educational Tours, raised a fortune for manuscripts, first editions and such items as Browning's ring and snuffbox. The collection is now housed in a $2,000,000 Renaissance library on the Baylor campus at Waco, Texas-"a place," said Dr. A., "where young people can meditate on great thoughts . . . the most beautiful building in the world...