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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduate student. And this bias springs from only one thing: Widener's tremendous size. It is this great hulk that is stifling to undergraduates. Among the four million volumes which comprise the Harvard Library, only one hundred thousand books interest them. Yet these very books in demand are hidden away among innumerable tomes which contain the last printed word on any subject. Graduate students have access to the book stacks; they have stalls placed right where the books they need are shelved; now there is even a bathroom in the stacks so graduate students do not have to walk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIBRARY: PRIMARILY FOR GRADUATES | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...American Philosophical Association, had arranged to honor him. Honor him they did, with oratory and applause. But Dr. Dewey heard them not. He was not in Manhattan, not in Chicago, not in any of a dozen other places where Dewey birthday meetings were held. Painfully modest Dr. Dewey had hidden himself on a daughter's ranch in Greencastle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dewey at 80 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...with an eventual top of 70,000 barrels after all seven pumping stations are in. The oil yields 49% gasoline on straight run, double that under cracking processes (ordinary black oil yields no better than 24% gasoline on straight run). How much of it lies hidden in the upper Catatumbo basin nobody knows. The companies have until August 1941 to stake out their final claims. Then half of the Barco reverts to the Colombian Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETROLEUM: The Barco | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...whole, the stellar performance of these banditti merits the attention of football coaches throughout the country who are interested in building an offense based on deception. With one of the artful dodgers in the backfield, the hidden ball trick would sweep the country again...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, | Title: What's His Number? | 10/24/1939 | See Source »

...Priests gave anti-tank prayers hoping to prevent Russian tanks from crossing the Dnestr River where the Poles blew up the bridge. But the tanks crossed despite the prayers and encircled obstacles which the priests had blessed and behind which the Poles had hidden. When the tanks approached the priests fled into the forests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Revolution Repeated | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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