Word: stacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Metcalf suggests that the University combine the two catalogues on the first floor, thus permitting 2,000,000 duplicate cards to be thrown away. The Library would build a new charging desk and stack entrance there--"in the middle of the ten stack levels, replacing the present main entrance which is on the eighth level...
...India's unlettered masses. Auto trailers, loaded with exhibits, stop in every village for a three-day show. The villagers get simple demonstrations of modern methods of poultry-breeding, cattle-raising and plowing. Moreover, though the trailer crews move on, they leave behind in each village a stack of books and a temporary squad of teachers. Aim: nothing less than 100% literacy among Delhi's 1,900,000 people (now 82% illiterate...
Felix Caraglanes--a heart bigger than his stack of the Times...
...names of more than a hundred of those boy-friends, Immediately after the crime there had been a wave of confessions; apparently people seeking attention had been inspired by the intensity of the violence. Sergeant Brown methodically tracked down and threw out each confession. He was left with a stack of photographs of the Dahlia and her friends, and the little black book...
...larger house in our village in Yemen," she said, "but this one [and she pointed to a tin hut, empty except for a stack of blankets, a little stove and a big pot] is better. Rain makes more noise on the roof, but it doesn't come in. It's true we don't eat so much meat as we did, but there are other things I never dreamed of. Look at that little pipe by the road there. Water comes if you turn the top piece...