Word: auditoriums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though stench bombs were thrown in the hall prior to Browder's appearance and a glass door was broken by a crowd seeking admittance, only scattered boos and cheers came from the 522 students, including six co-eds, who were seated in the auditorium. No standees were permitted in the hall...
...Wilfred T. Grenfell, K.C.M.G., founder of the Grenfell Mission to Labrador, will speak about that organization's work tonight at 8 o'clock in the large auditorium of the Fogg Museum...
...board of directors decided on a desperate blood transfusion: an injection of high-spending cultural barbarians among their own withering shirt fronts. Last week, while the starchier board members still creaked and grumbled, the Los Angeles Philharmonic announced: 1) a move from Los Angeles' solemn, downtown Philharmonic Auditorium to Hollywood's garish Pantages Cinema Theatre, 2) three new conductors: famed German exile Bruno Walter, jovial Russo-Britisher Albert Coates, glamorous platinum blond Leopold Stokowski...
...electroencephalograph, while attached to a patient's head, may sometimes pick up short-wave radio programs. Classic is the accident which happened to famed British Neurologist Edgar Douglas Adrian, who once hitched an amplifier to a brain recorder, for a wholesale broadcast of brain waves to an auditorium full of his colleagues. To his horror the electroencephalograph blared out God Save the King. In confusion, half the neurologists rose, half remained seated...
What smart municipal management can do with a public utility Colorado Springs citizens heard when they gathered in the city auditorium one night this week to celebrate the mortgage burning. Its symbol was on the stage: shy, onetime sheriff, Mayor George G. Birdsall, who in 18 years on the City Council has drawn no salary, has gigged the city for not a single cent of expense money. Its mouthpiece was beside him: stocky, blue-eyed onetime Utility Engineer Earl Louis Mosley, who has been the city's light and gas plant manager since it was taken over from United...