Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day Interior Secretary Harold Ickes was in the witness chair...
Coming from Barcelona and a chair of Arabic and Spanish Literatures in the university of that city, Pedro Grases has been appointed visiting lecturer in Spanish to share the load of Spanish 4b and 11b with William Berrien, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, and to give a new course on Hispanic Civilization...
...models are Mrs. Lee's latest step to improve the study of legal medicine in the University. Previously she has established a valuable library of legal medicine in memory of George B. Magrath '94, and the Francis Glessner Lee Professorship of legal Medicine, a chair now held by Dr. Alan R. Moritz
...announce it, he called a meeting in Hampton's grey agricultural hall. Farmers drove in from miles around. Villagers turned out by the score. Colonel Ryder told them: Hampton should erect a factory to turn out "rounds and squares" (chair rungs, desk legs) from nearby stands of spruce, cedar, pine and birch. The factory would serve as a memorial to 18 Hamptonians who had died in World War II. It would provide jobs for about 50 of Hampton's 187 overseas veterans...
...England only the Manchester Guardian comes close to the Times's great, impersonal prestige. If the Times suddenly vanished, most of its London readers would probably turn to the News Chronicle. The difference, as London wags put it: "The Times is for reading in an overstuffed chair, the News Chronicle for reading in a rocking chair...