Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Bill Douglas will not put his lanky legs on the high court's august desk or chain-smoke cigarets during hearings, he may often wish he could. That is the way he behaved in the chair of SEC. His care less clothes, sandy hair awry, speech plain as a pikestaff, are essentially characteristic of the young man who only 17 years ago herded sheep and bummed on box cars to get East for his legal education...
Announcement of Professor Robinson's retirement is expected at the Monday meeting of the Corporation or at some later session. Three men are most prominently mentioned as successors to the Gurney chair...
With the retirement of Professor Lowes in December the expected vacancy will leave two full professorships open to younger men in the department. Rumor in the English Department rates Professor Kenneth B. Murdock, Master of Leverett House, as most likely successor to the Gurney chair...
Squeezed into a small hall in the huge Park Square Building off Arlington Street, the brand new Telepix theatre presents a shower of short features to the public in ultra-modern and ultra-comfortable surroundings. Thus far, however, the "rocking chair comfort" and the sterilized air with ultra-violet ray generators are greater attractions than the uneven assortment of newsreels, travelogues and cartoons...
Untrammeled by conventional mores, Mr. Haldane was named corespondent in a London divorce action in 1925. Cambridge University, at which he was then a reader in biochemistry, asked him to leave. Haldane refused. He went to the University of London in 1933, where he now occupies the chair of biometry-a life tenure...