Word: bench
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presented the library with a picture. The Farnsworth Room has been chosen as being the most appropriate place in which the picture could be hung, because the subject is one dealing with the war. Different soldiers, representing different wars in French history are shown seated on a bench with room for just one more. A Pollu, holding an olive branch behind his back, bows to the assemblage, and a caption below reads -- "Vous permettez-les anciens?" Jean Droit is the artist...
Throughout the week colorful personalities abounded in the Reichstag as concluding arguments for and against the Locarno Treaties drew to a close. Klara Zetkin, 68-year-old and rejuvenated* "Mother of German Communism," arrived from Moscow for the occasion. On the Nationalist bench the aged Admiral von Tirpitz stroked his pendulous forked beard...
According to despatches, "a powerful electric bell" has been installed under the seat of every deputy in the Italian Chamber. All are wired to sound in unison at the pressure of a button on the President's bench. "It is not within the power of mortals to withstand the racket. . . . During today's session the device was inaugurated when the deputies waxed tumultuous over a minor point. . . Their shouts were instantly overwhelmed and quieted by the artificial...
...Each club is made to post $1000 which is forfeit if the club employs and amateur who has not definitely renounced his amateur status. No club may have more than 16 men on its roster, but at the same time, at least that number must be present on the bench to afford substitutes for injured...
Harold ("Red") Grange of Illinois (who has received so much publicity that the Knickerbocker Ice Co. recommended its product to the public on the score that he has carried ice on his back) sat on a bench and saw his second and third string teammates beat Wabash on a sloppy field...