Word: armchair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down his Modern European History text and leaned back, yawning, in the armchair. He closed his eyes and sighed. History could never be the same since that day last spring when he had heard that booming voice declaim for the last time, "Gentlemen, the Middle Ages were slow, slow, inconceivably slow...
...parts of Morse's autobiography dealing with his varied career and his later struggle with eccentric professors make fascinating reading for undergraduates. Dignified Professor Pound putting buckets under leaks in the Law Library roof and spending the repair money on more books, President Lowell deciding that the non-upholstered armchair for the College dorms should be designed to be comfortable with your feet on the table, and College dietitians deliberately planning extra good meals in the fall to make easier the transfer from home cooking and then in the spring again bettering the menus to meet the expected undergraduate protests...
...jovial and expensive mood after lunching with several friends and associates, he placed himself in a large armchair and relaxed before his evening address in Symphony Hall. Long known as one of Roosvelt's most out-spoken opponents, Wheeler has recently taken the lead in fighting against American entrance into...
...Armchair constructors had fancifully assumed that all the camps would be built on good terrain, that weather would be fine, that roads, railways, water supplies and electric power would be ample, that the costs of labor and materials would stay put. As any lay contractor worth his cement could have foretold, practically none of these assumptions held good. Plans were suddenly, sometimes erratically, changed. Congress delayed initial appropriations, so that jobs which might have been done last fall had to be done in wintertime. Unions put the bite on workers for stiff initiation fees, held up some camps until demands...
Visitors at the Manhattan show were especially impressed with a bulgy plaster elephant done by 52-year-old Clara Crampton, who, blind from birth, had never seen one. Other Manhattan blind sculptors had made statues of an armchair, a cat, a fisherman, a violinist. One had even managed a mother and child. The Lighthouse had expected to put price tags on the works and raise a little extra cash for the artists by selling them. But the blind sculptors flatly objected. Not one was willing to part with her sculpture, at any price...