Word: stall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to the records of the Loan Desk, 121 159 books were lent for home, reading room, study, or stall use during the year 1920-21, in addition to those used for overnight reference work in the general and lower reading rooms, which amounted to over 25,000 volumes. These figures do not include the unrecorded use of books in the reading rooms and the stacks, which cannot be computed...
According to the records of the Loan Desk, 114,219 books were lent for home, reading room, study, or stall use during the year 1919-20. These figures do not include the unrecorded use of books in the reading rooms and the stacks, which cannot be computed...
...possess before he can hope to find a career in the service: one is "pull," and the other is a private income. Added to this the uncertainty of being retained when a change in political power occurs in Washington, the man who hopes to advance on merit alone has stall chance of success...
...Howe, D. Withington; 10-11, H. W. Paterson, B. F. Newcomer; 11-12, G. S. Morse, W. C. Jackson; 12-1, J. C. Greene, J. N. Brown; 1-2, O.S. Leland, D. McK. Key; 2-3, R. R. Higgins, M.Gratwick; 3-4, P. L. Salton stall, L. B. Ellis; 4-5, G. L. Paine, J. N. Macy...
...prevent stalling would of course be advantageous to a physically strong team. Suppose that a Harvard team, the inferior of a Yale team in brawn, but equal in knowledge of football, managed to score first. Its only hope would be to stall, to oppose their wits to their opponent's strength. And this I call perfectly good football...