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...three and one-third minutes, bank teller Gooding peers up through his oversized periscope and discourses on the hazards of his job. "Women are always a problem," he notes while tapping the little metal basket that rides up and down with its cargo of currency. He thumbs through a pile of tens and remembers, "some guy this morning deposited three letters. I told him this wasn't a mail...
...shifted to a pile of twenties and suggested, "Next time you go by, say hello...
...still apt to recall in their nightmares, is a sort of cross between Tom Brown and a wombat and looks like all the downtrodden weeds, wets, clots, new bugs, old lags, young ticks, cads, roters, and bulies of the British public school system swept into one messy pile. He alone, as Author Geoffrey Willans and Cartoonist Ronald Searle describe him, is quite enough to account for the current teacher shortage in England...
Unhappily, this still left a large number of students whose meal hours had not coincided with the representatives, or whose envelopes had not yet come to the top of the pile in the H.A.A. The six of this group of dissatisfied students was clearly evident from the length of the line that remained outside the H.A.A. from 9:00 Saturday until 12:15. At this time a somewhat hysterical Frank Lunden began frantically slamming the door in students' faces, among them mine...
...teaching facilities they have. The department of General Education has not done this, however. In five of the ten lower-level courses in the Humanities and Social Sciences, the department has retained enrollment limits that serve to turn disappointed freshmen away from courses they want to take and to pile up astronomical numbers of these students in the one or two courses that have room for them...