Word: bench
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having been removed by his position on the bench from political activity, he is free from factional party entanglements, and would have the support of a militant and united party. Born in Kentucky, educated in Tennessee and Virginia, a citizen of Tennessee for many years before coming to the East, he was invited by President Roosevelt to come to Washington as assistant to Mr. Bonaparte, then Attorney General, to apply his genius for the law to the work of dissolving the trusts...
...Sejm assembles. Only Minister of Interior Slawoi Skladkowski sits, alone and forlorn, upon the Government bench. Opposition deputies stroke their beards in satisfaction, twirl confident mustaches, whisper that the Budget Bill will never pass. Once again they tear it to tatters in a furious debate. At last the President of the Sejm calls for the final vote...
...McNary-Haugen bill is Charles Linza McNary who did not stay down on the Oregon farm where he was born. Leland Stanford Jr. University (Calif.) and private tutors educated him. A lawyer and gentleman, he became Dean of an Oregon law school, whence he was elevated to the bench. In Washington, the characteristic thing about him is not that he is Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee but that he is a member of the Committee on Committees. The latter requires political finesse, conversation (not oratory), the dispassionate manipulation of other men's passions. And Senator McNary plays faces better...
...Harvard University's physical equipment for extended intramural sports. This in itself is a significant substantiation of the fact that up to a year ago at least Harvard was by no means free from the intercollegiate disease of stadrumitis which was making potentially able-bodied young men into bench warmers on the Cheering Section...
...reason I go to Sever is that I have always loved the old hall. I love to sit at one of its quaint benches, with the annals of Harvard football from 1892 to the present day before me, tying the shade string into an ever larger and higher, knot, which mounts the string so fast and far that I have to stand on the bench and finally scale the wall itself to keep up with it. And then I love to put my pencil in a little depression in the top of the bench and watch it actually come...