Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After four years of hit-and-run contact, the sum total that most undergraduates know about Widener is that they must climb sixty-nine steps, pass by the controversial Sargent murals, and wait twenty minutes before they can get a book. Beyond this shallow depth of bibliophilistic comprehension they have seldom waded. The time is long overdue when students should realize what the library does for Harvard education, and what, ultimately, it might do to enhance that education...
...should have. As a "considerable over-estimate," the Frenchmen thought the Soviet might have in ready gold 21,000,000 ounces ($760,000,000)-only four times as much as the U. S. produces in a single year; at present less than one-twentieth of the total U. S. reserve. But as European gold reserves go, 21,000,000 ounces is sizable...
...Total construction contracts let in September (F. W. Dodge Corp.'s 37-State report) amounted to $323,227,000, compared to $312,328,000 in August, to $300,900,000 in September 1938. One curious brake on this big advance is contractors' fear that war, if it lasts more than a year, may more than double costs, as it did last time. So they are afraid to bid for jobs taking two years or so to finish. Thus, in New York City last fortnight, only one bid was offered for a whopping new Criminal Courts Building...
...With a total of 63 entries in the contest to pick a Harvard drum-majorette, the CRIMSON last night was besieged by a flock of high school baton virtuosos who appeared to register in person, accompanied by mothers, aunts, and second cousins...
...figures show, however, that out of the thirty fields of concentration, fifteen have a total of less than twenty-five per cent of the 2,664 concentrators...