Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among his most famed speeches, away from the groaning board, were speeches at the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty, the opening of the Chicago World's Fair, the centennial of Washington's inauguration, his nomination of President Benjamin Harrison. An annual event was his report to the Union League Club, in Manhattan, on his summers in Europe. At the Republican National Convention in 1916, Senator Harding called on him unexpectedly during a lull in the proceedings. Aged 82, he extemporaneously spellbound the hall for 45 minutes. Four years later he repeated the feat...
...Chauncey Mitchell Depew Jr.). He remained board chairman of the New York Central up to his death. A few hours after he died, steelworkers swung the final girder into place atop the pinnacle of his last project, the 36-story New York Central Building behind the Grand Central station, dominating famed Park Avenue...
...York Rubber Exchange. At the close of a day of pandemoniac selling all records for volume of turnover had been shattered by transactions totaling 8,985 long tons and exceeding $5,000,000 in value. The average price, chalked up again and again with fractional variations by perspiring board boys, was 21? per pound...
...Loree quit the meeting, his eyes coldly furious and Mr. Atterbury ordered the excellent lunch, prepared by Pennsylvania chefs, to be served his conferees who by eating at his board became his guests...
...bodies would offend conservative opinion; or that to avoid this offense, the document would be framed in terms cautious, trite, and without value. That neither was the case was due to the prestige and adroitness of its two sponsors, Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, secretary of the U. S. Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, and the Rt. Rev. William Temple, Anglican Bishop of Manchester. Dr. Speer, since his graduation from Princeton in 1889, has attended many a missionary conference. He could doubtless remember those in which it would have been regarded as presumptuous to take any serious consideration of the creeds...