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The Man Who Pioneered Libraries and Sexual Harassment

Behind the Bastards

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Do You Think Dewey Organized Spices?

The first product he remembered saving up to buy with his money was an unabridged dictionary, which he had to walk 10 miles in order to purchase. Dewey may have retroactively inserted it into his past and later recollections because he was just like absolutely obsessed with the number 10. As a teenager, Melville extended his organizational mind to the family business from a 1981 right up in the Wilson library bulletin. He made a thorough analysis of his father's store proved its business of inefficiencies and made arrangements for the transfer of its inventory to its competitor down the street.

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