Word: flooring
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...joint library is on the second floor, and contains nearly 100,000 volumes, plus 205,000 pamphlets and 900 periodicals. The 4000-volumes, 1500-pamphlet School of Dental Medicine library is further down Longwood Avenue. In addition, the other buildings hold well-stocked departmental libraries...
There are two long blocks of buildings at the Army Base, stubby buildings stained black from the smoke of South Boston. One floor of one section of these buildings has been equipped for the processing of inductees; I arrived on that floor at 10 a.m. with a group of about 30 of my contemporaries. We were given a sheaf of papers and seated at two long tables, each sectioned off into cubicles with plywood screens. At the far end of the tables there was a sergeant sitting at a low desk. He was reading a newspaper...
...picked up our papers, with the test results neatly entered at the top, and the sergeants led our prospective platoon to a small door at the far end of the floor. "O. K., men," said the sergeant, "split up into groups of six." We split up. "First group go in." It was a small room, with the numbers one through six painted on one wall and a civilian leaning against another. "Line up under the numbers!" shouted the civilian. "Turn around! Cover your left ears! First man, repeat after me: One! Four! Twelve! Three!" The first man shouted back...
There were, two men in Station Six, a doctor and another private. "Strip," said the private. We piled our shoes and socks and shorts on the floor, and put the little cloth bags on top of them...
...said the doctor. "Raise your arms over your head-then straight out-now bend down. Stand up again." He pointed to me. "Appendicitis scar fully hardened." The private pencilled more checks on my sheet. The doctor started to say something else, then the boy behind me hit the floor...