Word: used
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regard to the first plan, the information blank notes that at best it would accommodate only half the "over-flow." Recipients of the questionnaires are also asked whether, regardless of preference, they would use a common dining room if one were provided...
...Annual Report of the Society for the Education of Imbecile Youth in Scotland"; "A Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak English for the Use of Chinese Pupils"; and "The Report of the Widows' Society of Boston" are three of the queer titles found by Miss Barbara Tisdale, Radcliffe '35, in her work of cataloguing 40,000 pamphlets, magazines, tracts, letters, and catalogues for use in the graduate schools of the University...
Many of the works have been in the cellars of University libraries for 50 years without being touched or used. Miss Tisdale was commissioned this fall to go through them and see if she couldn't make some use of them...
Lieut.-General Sir Reginald John Thoroton Hildyard, British Governor of the buggy-and-bicycle vacationland of Bermuda, few months ago applied to the Assembly for an automobile. (There are only half-a-hundred motor-driven vehicles on the Islands, none for private use.) The application was received with "ribaldry." and the Governor retired to his tent with a severe case of the haughties. Last week when the Speaker informed the Assembly of the Governor's still purple condition, the ribald Assemblymen sent their soothing respects...
...Saturday and described at the President's press conference as "the greatest human interest story in the last six years," calls for the turning over to the Federal Government of the Roosevelt Hyde Park estate and the construction of a building to house the President's papers for the use of posterity's scholars...