Word: stack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a stack of British medical journals, long delayed, reached the U. S. Largely devoted to such grim warlike topics as blood transfusions, epidemics, war neuroses and head injuries, the journals still had space for tidbits of civil medicine. Sample tidbits...
HARVARD '44 YALE '44 Aldrich or Teal, l.e. r.e., Hoopes or McTernan Mallett (C), l.t. r.t., Constantin DeCoster, l.g. r.g., Ruebel Mason, e. e., Overlock Lawrence, r.g. l.g., Block Parson, r.t. l.t., Stack Cummings, r.e. l.e., Dent Blanchard, q.b. q.b., Ferguson (C) Johnson, l.h.b. r.h.b., Taylor O'Donnell, r.h.b. l.h.b., Mahoney Anderson or Cowen, f.b. f.b., Burke...
...parched despair of Allen's voice is matched by his rueful features. In the classic comic tradition, he is persistently gloomy. In point of fact, his early lot was not too happy. A onetime stack-boy in the Boston Public Library, he got interested in juggling through reading a few books on the subject, soon became so proficient with balls and billiard cues that he was permitted to join a troupe of amateurs touring movie houses around Boston. Allen was subjected to all kinds of indignities. He was struck from behind with bladders, bothered by flying stuffed fish, interrupted...
When in past years many current numbers of the less used magazines were filed in the stacks, students had to obtain stack permission or write out call cards at the delivery desk in order to obtain them...
...steelmakers' "captive" mines, sent them into the commercial market. Result: the ailing soft-coal industry is headed toward 10,000,000 tons a week (its 1939 average: 7,800,000 tons a week), and many a factory manager began to think it might be a good idea to stack some extra coal in the yard just in case. Ordinarily, coal buyers get inventory-minded when they fear a strike. This time, like the country as a whole, they were just being prepared...