Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Punch's droll Herbert could not leave off without proposing that "upon the Hot Seat or Vibrating Chair which jiggles" in the gymnasium, the Cunard White Star line should screw another commemorative plate: "HERE SAT, WITH HIS ACCUSTOMED DIGNITY AND CHARM, SIR HORACE DAWKINS, THE REVERED CLERK AT THE TABLE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, AND WAS VIBRATED AFTER A GOOD LUNCH, MAY 16TH...
...Modernist Machine" in power in the church. In his Fundamentalist Presbyterian, Guardian last fortnight Fundamentalist Machen warned his disciples not to be deceived at the General Assembly by the way the Machine would "conceal the real issues" by limitation of debate, parliamentary bullying from the moderator's chair, celebrating the Lord's Supper, reciting the Apostles' Creed, prayer ("When misused to shelve important issues or gain an unfair advantage over opponents in debate, it is a very objectionable thing") and singing such hymns as Blest Be the Tie That Binds ("When it is dragged in at unexpected...
...Henry V. Hubbard '97, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Chairman of the School of Regional Planning, will be retained from the present faculty. Hubbard occupies a chair which was endowed by James F. Curtis '99 in 1929 and will remain to do research work...
...gadget in a railroad official's office car which is most likely to get out of order is the speedometer, whose clock face is usually perched just above and in front of the official as he sits in his accustomed chair before the starboard rear observation window. Nevertheless, last week the Boston & Maine joined the current race to lure passengers with gimcracks when it installed a speedometer in the solarium of its crack, streamlined Flying Yankee. Developed by Waltham Watch Co., the instrument is actuated by a small electric generator connected to the car wheels. If it works without...
Since the recent elevation of William L. Langer to the Coolidge professorship of History only gives him an expected promotion and an impressive title, he can dispense with congratulations. Rather, they should go to the Coolidge Chair whose reputation will be enhanced from its association with a man who is rapidly becoming the Napoleon of modern European historians and to President Conant who has effectively stilled the persistent rumors that other colleges are trying to bribe Mr. Langer away from Cambridge...