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...Widener Memorial Building, however, is the heart of the whole system. The 67 steps to the delivery room are probably climbed more often than any other stairway except that to the students' dormitories. Most of the books in the whole network are catalogued in this room and the books in Widener are secured there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World's Largest University Library Centers Around Widener-Half of 3,600,000 Volumes | 9/1/1936 | See Source »

...Mount St. Alban. Last week a stanch Presbyterian displayed two stained glass windows, designed for the National Cathedral, and executed with the simple, wholehearted reverence of the Gothic 13th Century. Already the author of 13 National Cathedral windows, Lawrence Bradford Saint made his- latest pair to flank the stairway to the crypt in the North Transept, as a memorial to the late William T. Hildrup Jr., Pennsylvania steel products manufacturer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Saint's Saints | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...While I was going through this door I had a view of the top of the exit stairway, and I saw a policeman's head. He was sort of peeking around the edge of the partition and then ducked away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Ticket-of-Leave Man | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...inborn talents and a clever child's natural aptitude in imitating her elders, three years of experience have added, in the case of Cinemactress Temple, the technique of a seasoned trouper. In Captain January she had to come down a 45-ft. lighthouse stairway while a camera crane moved beside her catching a line at each turn of the stairs. The difficulty was to time the lines exactly to the turns and simultaneously to a dance step with which she was punctuating her words. Shirley did not miss once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Peewee's Progress | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...radio, a phonograph, a piano. On the piano stand photographs of Mrs. Hoan, her mother, the Hoans's son Daniel Webster Jr., their daughter Agnes at 2 and at 18. A picture of the Hoans, looking stiff and uncomfortable after their wedding in 1909, hangs in the stairway hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WISCONSIN: Marxist Mayor | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

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