Word: depositions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same category as a bank vault. And now, the staff at its parvenu neighbor Lamont, (which the Houghton people refer to as "Uncle Tom's Cabin"), call it the "Jewel Box." For, besides being the University's most sumptuous bookshelf, Houghton acts as show case and safe deposit vault for one of the world's finest collections of rare books and documents...
...than any other country, the big hotel has become a city in itself. There, says Hilton, "you could live out a full life without ever going out of doors. They have nightclubs, banquet halls and shopping centers. You can read a book in the library and use the safe deposit vault as a bank. If you get sick, there's a hospital, with a doctor and a nurse. You can park your car, eat your head off and sleep till noon. Home was never like that...
Prior to the opening of the exchange the NSA group will conduct a drive for textbooks and used books the week preceding Christmas vacation. Lists of books particularly desired for the center will be published and each girl contacted individually during the drive. Seniors who deposit books at graduation will be mailed checks on completion of book sales...
Died. Henry L. Straus, 53, president of Tropical Park race track since 1941; in a private-plane crash; near Port Deposit, Md. Turfman Straus made a fortune in royalties out of his invention, the American totalizator, a complicated (1,500,000 moving parts) electrical device which automatically calculates the odds in pari-mutuel betting...
This afternoon, solicitors will continue to canvass those who have already signed up. Students may still volunteer by seeing their house captains or by dropping their sign-up blanks in the dining-hall deposit boxes. Volunteering will continue through dinner tonight...