Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...store grown large and prosperous, John Phillips retired and moved to California. The shelf of books in the jeweler's shop had begun as a sideline and turned into a career...
...suave photomurals and green fluorescentlit interior of Phillips' Book Store's new establishment which opened this week would make strange contrast with the store John Phillips started in 1914. He began with one shelf of second-hand books-in someone else's jewelry store...
Phillips was a graduate student from Nebraska. He had come to study philosophy under Harvard's "greats"-Santayana, Josiah Royee, William James-and he started the book shelf merely to help cover his expenses. It was a success, and in two years was bringing him $1000 beyond his living expenses. Phillips neglected his graduate studies-he didn't receive his Master's degree until 1928-and moved to a store...
...main worries today," McNiff said, "are those students who take a large number of books off the shelf, although they can only use one book at a time...
...basic cause of all such maneuvers is that there are simply not enough books to go around. This is not unexpected, but in many instances there is a whole shelf full of copies of one book while there are only two or three copies of another that contains an equal amount of assigned reading. In some cases this is due to departments that won't purchase enough volumes, in others to professors who assign out-of-print editions. Lamont officials say they try, to adjust the number of copies of a book to student demand as much as possible...