Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neither the agency nor its chair man to which he objected, Senator Byrd explained. For them he had nothing but praise. But the Brookings Institution had calculated that the Government could save $30,000,000 per year by consolidating its credit agencies. One item in the Institution's program was transfer of RFC's as sets to some other agency as soon as its lending activities had ceased. Since reorganization should begin to take effect by July 1938, Senator Byrd proposed an amendment extending RFC only to that date...
...Angeles' Hotel Biltmore an unidentified woman directed a novice doorman to help her move a chair from the hall to a waiting taxi, drove off with the hotel's furniture...
...Harvard in 1890, received his A.M. a year later, and his Ph.D. in 1894. He was an instructor in Greek here in 1892 and then went abroad to study for two years. He has taught continuously since 1895, and has been a professor since 1909. He obtained the Eliot Chair of Greek Literature in 1925. He is 68 years...
...lass of the 18th century, to be kissed was to be as good as married. Young men of today are bolder, and young ladies far less scrupulous. To enjoy the play version of "Pride and Prejudice" fully we advise that after you have completely relaxed in your leather-backed chair at the Colonial, forget all the progress of the last two centuries in the mating arts, and reduce your idea of the animal, woman to a mere bundle of hovering, pent-up passion, afraid to let herself loose...
...door in the next entry sings in the morning. He has a good voice--a voice that makes me want to sing with him. I really don't mind him. It is the sun in the morning, I think, that makes me want the old room back. But the chair and the lamps would never do in there and besides there is a great space-devouring bureau, with a mirror, which I have acquired since. I will have to stay in here and get the sun in the afternoon...