Word: containment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second floor, rooms are assigned to various language groups and each one is equipped with a small special library containing a selection of works of general interest written in the several languages represented. In addition, there are copies of the most representative texts at different levels for the study of those languages and their literatures in schools and colleges. On this floor are rooms devoted to French, German, Spanish, Slavic, and Italian. Besides books, they contain many foreign language newspapers...
Present grad school rules contain five provisions, the first four dealing mainly with the maintenance of "order and decorum" in the dormitories. It is the fifth section, concerning entertainment privileges, which is now under Council scrutiny...
With the complete biographical section going to the printer this month, Landis predicted that 314 will be ready for distribution in late May or early June. The volume will contain, he said, more senior portraits than any issue of the Senior Album series, which it succeeds...
Needle-nosed Harry Bridges hurried to Murray's hotel suite. There, while Murray and members of his staff listened, Bridges blandly argued that he had never followed the Communist line; he had only done what seemed best for his longshoremen. C.I.O. Secretary-Treasurer James Carey, 37, unable to contain himself, yelled: "You're a goddam liar, Bridges." A few minutes later, Harry put on his hat and left...
...Every place that is favorable for the growth of micro-organisms (and most places are) is a churning battleground of small, fierce creatures. A pinch of moist soil weighing one gram, for instance, may contain more bacteria (up to 2 billion) than there are people on earth. Among the ordinary creatures prowl savage protozoa engulfing them one by one. There is an underworld, too, made up of submicroscopic viruses, hardly more than big molecules, which often invade the larger organisms and multiply explosively...