Word: stacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...provided for bibliographical assistance and $200,000 for a publication fund. These funds have enabled enormous enlargement of the facilities for caring for the vast law library and for enabling students to study in it. The new building provides for 20,000 shelf units, and has stack room for 500,000 books. In the midst of these book stacks there are located the 35 studies for graduate students, and the 78 stalls for undergraduate work in the stacks...
...widow of a shacktown doctor, ran a shacktown boarding house, married her Irish boarder and zoomed with him to riches indescribable. Today a Nevada "miner," before he makes his mark, is a smooth-faced youth in flannel or corduroy trousers (lately bell-bottomed) and a woolen sweater, with a stack of books in his dormitory room, instead of pick, pan and shovel. Instead of rip-roaring oldtime dance halls there are night clubs and roadhouses nowadays, built up around Reno to accommodate the transient (divorce-seeking) trade. Discreet enough to be considered proper for the University of Nevada...
...Another famed onetime bicycle maker is Motor Tycoon John North Willys, 55, who did business at Canandaigua, N. Y., not far from Hammondsport. In 1917 he helped Mr. Curtiss expand Curtiss Motor and Plane production for war demands, by acquiring controlling stack of the Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. Mr. Keys, president, now has control...
...Freshman nine journeys to Andover this afternoon to stack up against the local schoolboys. The yearlings should have no trouble in defeating the Academy, whose record of one win and seven defeats points to a rather weak team...
...hurdles and dash events, while tomorrow at the same time the finals and 11 other events as well will be contested. The Handicap meet affords an opportunity for former college athletes in the graduate schools, for Freshmen, and for men on probation or otherwise prevented from intercollegiate competition to stack up against Coach Farrell's present crop of stars, while men of non-squad calibre are aided by liberal handicaps to compete with more experienced athletes...