Word: straighten
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...have no suggestion really. Somebody might of course straighten the shelves in the reading room once in a while. A number of libraries have the foolish habit of cleaning dirty books, but it is a nasty job, involving an eraser and an elbow. Finally we do think that two weeks is more than long enough for a book to be charged out. We often weep at the distress of the student who finds Widener has a book, and indeed knows where it is, but can't get it for a month. A month is an con in an academic year...
...such precarious terms with Dean Elder that he bored a hole in his office wall to spy on the dean and his red-haired secretary, Evelyn Dill. When Mr. Norton reported to Headmaster Cutler that he had seen the pair kissing and embracing, the headmaster had attempted to straighten things out by holding a "harmony" prayer meeting in his office. At the time, Dr. Cutler painfully recalled, Dean Elder had wanted to thrash Cashier Norton as a "peeping Tom," Last week Defendant Elder told the court that Accuser Norton haa always been a "Jekyll and Hyde character," prone to bursts...
Meanwhile, Guild members were boring from within. Pundit Walter Lippmann, New York Herald Tribune columnist, wrote a letter to the Guild refusing to pay his dues because he would not commit himself to political opinions adopted by them. New York Guild Secretary Milton Kaufman attempted to straighten him out with the assurance that "individual members of the Guild are no more committed to resolutions of this character than are editorial employes of the Herald Tribune committed to the editorial policy" of that paper. In Seattle 40 Guild members on the Post-Intelligencer, whose publisher is President Roosevelt...
Below in the two launches, cameras clicked. For seconds all was well. Then the people in the launches gasped as the plummeting body, having touched fingers and toes in a back jackknife, was seen to straighten and then veer, swing crazily in the air-pressure and smash, spread-legged, into the water on shoulders and back. "He's dead!" someone shrieked...
...this week the Yardlings have been handicapped by having practiced less than twice a week. Five days of practice this week have helped considerably to round the team into shape and straighten out numerous problems. The most pressing of those problems has been in selecting left wings. There are very few left-hand shots on the squad, and consequently it has been necessary to convert righthanders...