Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...built, was described as "the present ultimate in builder's and airconditioner's art." The gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. '29, the Library owes much of its up-to-dateness to the efforts of the director, Professor William A. Jackson. There are ticking devices that look like seismographs to keep tabs on the temperature and humidity, ultra-violet equipment and a comparison microscope for scrutinizing documents, and microfilm scope for scrutinizing documents, and microfilm viewers in the reading room for use with the Library's 1000 microfilms...
...Like air hissing out of a balloon, students will hasten out of College today, leaving it deflated and limp. The occasion is the Christmas recess, which, like birthdays, comes only once a year, but never has caught anybody unawares...
...walked across the Square--colored lights, and old rummies with tin pails asking for dimes and quarters, and all the stores leering out in the darkness, bright windows like dragons' jaws to eat money; money, money and that's Xmas. There's no such thing as Christmas. Into the Yard; lights here meant that guyes were going on studying or drinking or talking, whether it was Christmas or Mother...
...Occupation owns radio stations, newspapers, and magazines in both countries. In Austria the "Wiener Kurier," a picture tabloid, and in Germany the respectable "Neue Zeitung" undersell the national journals. The Government also supports in Germany a Life-like bi-weekly called "Heute" and a literary monthly "Der Monat...
...Holiday Inn" Astaire plays a foil for Bing Crosby. In this film, a Paramount re-release, Crosby's voice and hairline are still intact. He sings an excellent selection of Irving Berlin tunes--"Easter Parade," "Be Careful, It's My Heart," and, of course "White Christmas." The result is like a greeting card: it has no art and no subtlety, but it's pleasant...