Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Declaring it is "unfair to charge full room rental for a hod, a chair, and a locker," the petition, signed by 79 residents of the gym, said "we are willing to pay a proportionate rate...
Free time in the day was spent swimming or rowing on a nearby lake, playing ping-pong, or dozing in an easy chair. Most students devoted the evenings to chess or checkers, study in a luxuriously-furnished library, or listening to concerts of classical music in the music room...
...William Ray, an 80-year-old barber of Lowell, Ohio (pop. 1,000), was still using the same wooden chair and the same leather soap bowl with which he started barbering 58 years ago, and still charging the same prices: haircut 15?, shave...
...that ought to have a chair at the University. All the deacons should be sent to him for training...
...stooge for the union's Communist-line bosses. Last week he gave a good demonstration of a now familiar dodge of proCommunists who are called on to explain their stand. Summoned before a subcommittee of the House Education and Labor Committee, Fitzgerald tilted back in his chair and became blandly uninformed...