Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That's just it, you can't forget about it." The city-mouse worked his whiskers excitedly, "if you forget about it, what other way do you have left...
...Way back in 1902, President Eliot surveyed the overcrowded library in Gore Hall and "doubted whether it be wise for a University to undertake to store books by the millions when only a small proportion of the material stored can be in active use." He suggested that dead books could be stored in a much more compact manner in separate quarters. Naturally every professor was horrified by the thought that a book in his department could be considered "dead," so the idea was dropped for 40 years...
None of the books and newspapers put in deposit are rebound or processed in any other way. Many of the century-old journals are crumbling dangerously...
...this question too, and has set out to determine all the detailed expenses that will occur this year. If the Department can be successful in this difficult and complicated task, it either will be able to answer the numerous complaints or will find that the students are right. Either way, it is encouraging to see that the Department is now interested in examining itself...
...Movie Crazy," an early talkie, brings back one of the first and finest silent comedians, in one of his last and best productions. Harold Lloyd, the man who invented horn-rimmed glasses, lurched and fumbled his way to an improbable success in film milestones like "The Freshman," against competition from such adept funnymen as Buster Keaton and Chaplin himself. "Movie Crazy" shows what happened when sound hit the screen, and the champions of the gestured word had to adjust. Most of the time, they didn't bother...