Word: stack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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None of the positions are fixed as yet, Shepard emphasizes, and he expects to make further changes as game experience affects his team. He feels that his charges stack up quite a bit better than his Davidson squads, but points out that he has "a lot more material to draw on in a school this size...
...Alfalfa Bill's 80th birthday, Chief of Staff Hurst and the Squirrel Rifles had a party for him in the rotunda of the Capitol. On top of a stack of baled alfalfa hay was a birthday cake. The check they presented to him was a good deal short of the $4,000 which Oklahoma owed him, but it would help take care of Alfalfa Bill in his frayed and prideful...
Otherwise, there were the usual conferences and brief interviews; and as always, the stack of "reading-for-tonight" papers on the floor mounted to the toppling point. At 50, Robert Hutchins was slightly mellower in manner. But he could still get excited-now puffing a Fatima and pacing about, now plumping himself down in an easy chair to declaim across the room. Long ago, he had made up his mind what the ideal university should be. He thought Chicago was beginning to show signs of becoming one. "It is not a very good university," he said recently, in typical Hutchins...
Moving the charging desk and stack entrance from the second to the first floor, merging the Union and Public Catalogues, and improving lighting and elevators are among possible changes. Such alterations would "improve the service and increase the efficiency of Widener," Metcalf stated...
...carrel system is one of the library's most unusual end controversial features. Some 494 of them--500 were planned, but 6 got lost in the construction shuffie--are located through the acre and one-half of stack area on each of the three lower floors and the two above the main level...