Word: smells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...readers to distant corners, while making no appreciable impression on the temperature of the rest of the room. That the latter is excessive can hardly be denied; ask any student who has experienced the lethargic effects of an hour's reading and has had to endure the ever-present smell of perspiration. And if the main Reading Room is a hot-house, Boylston and most of the smaller libraries in Widener can be compared only to incubators, so rarely is any outside air admitted to temper their torridity...