Word: switches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Book thievery at Houghton has been non-existent in spite of the apparent temptations. The only access to books not encased in glass is in the reading room--its door is kept locked at all times except when released by a switch from the circulation desk. If a thief should manage to slip a book out of the reading room, he would still have to get it past Mr. Matthews at the outside door. Matthews, a virtuoso bartender in his spare time, is a doorman in the grandest manner, complete with English accent. Since the Library's opening, he says...
Record dealers knew the reason for the switch: LP records, made not only by Columbia but by 21 other manufacturers, have been outselling RCA's 45, although RCA sales have been picking up since its new promotion campaign (TIME, Sept. 5). Announcement of the new machines stirred up more gossip that RCA would soon put its classical music on LP records, keep making the 45s for popular tunes only...
...arrangement, which starts in September, will allow the students to study at Tufts for three years and then switch for two years to the Law School. In their sixth and seventh years they will do part of their work in Medford and part in Cambridge, commuting between the two cities...
...month, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky emphatically told the world that the peace-loving Soviet was using atomic energy for peaceful purposes "right now" (TIME, Nov. 21). Said he at Lake Success: "We are razing mountains; we are irrigating deserts." But in reporting his speech, Pravda made a significant switch: it quoted Vishinsky as saying only that Russia's atomic energists wanted to raze mountains...
Coach Norman Shepard used a shifting defense--man-to-man on the outside. But to keep his defenders from being screened by the weaving Jumbo offense, he often had them switch men on the outside. This kept the middle so well bottled up that in the first half, Mullaney was the only Jumbo who could break through and score with any consistency. Mullaney got six field goals in the first period, but was held to two in the second. In that period, Tufts had to rely mainly in the long set-shots on Captain Al Perry...