Word: stack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Woods, skinny sophomore backstroker, has clipped encouraging amounts off his times all year, and could rate a second tonight behind Yale ace Al Stack...
Candidate Harold Stassen made a clean break with Candidate Robert Taft. All last week Stassen trumpeted his new theme as he zigzagged across the top of New England, conferring with New Hampshire political leaders, downing a stack of pancakes covered with Vermont maple syrup, posing in front of a statue of Ethan Allen in Montpelier, addressing an audience of Bowdoin College students in Maine...
Another coincidence was spotted by a number of you in the November 3 issue. An advertisement on page 101 showed a parsimonious individual tucking a penny away in his vault while, behind his back, a hand reaching through the window grabbed a stack of banknotes from a table. "While you're busy saving pennies you're losing dollars," read the ad. On page 14 the Miscellany department carried the following item: "In Detroit, Theater Cashier Doris Trask dropped a penny, stooped to pick it up, straightened to discover that somebody had reached in her cage, snatched...
...York interviewing people and assembling material. The result of nearly three weeks' work was her 50-page report. It covered the year's economy, segment by segment, with a chronology of events, earnings figures, significant developments in industry, etc. Researcher Stoddard also passed along a foot-high stack of pertinent reports on the year's business, selected from the 100-odd morgue folders she had gone through...
Actual moving of the 75,000 volumes can be done in the space of a weekend, Metcalf stated. Widener will connect with the Lamont Library by tunnel, and a section in D stack next to the entrance is already set aside for books ready to go, Metcalf hopes that the lower sincks in Lamont will be ready before the upper portion is completed, so that moving can be staggered...