Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chair, established by a gift of Walter W. Naumberg '89, retired New York banker, Professor Piston will continue to teach orchestration and composition to University students. His promotion leaves one vacant professorship in the Music Department...
...tapestry chair seats, stitched up by Queen Mary and donated to a British dollar-raising drive called Women's Home Industries Ltd., brought $10,000 at auction in Manhattan...
...there for him to do? He plans, vaguely, to fly around the world, lecturing on India. But, back home, the native princes, who might be interested in financing him if he were a tout for dancing girls, turn him down: it would be less expensive to found a chair of Indian music at an English university...
John Christopher Kehoe likes to rear back in his wheel chair and bellow: "Want to see my horns? I've got them. I fight chickens, you know. I'm proud of it-keeps me alive." Last week, he was wheeled into a pagoda-shaped, whitewashed building outside Orlando, Fla. and sat, grim and lordly (in a pit-side box built specially for him and his wheel chair). John Kehoe's hand trembled as one of his game cocks, a fierce looking grey muff, was brought into the pit, weighed and made ready for battle...
After the first two days, the halfway mark, Kehoe's greys had won seven fights without losing one. Their owner chortled gleefully from his wheel chair: "The way they're dropping you'd think I was using a shotgun on them." A man from Tennessee, allowing that Kehoe was right, said to a man from North Carolina: "There's something that old man's got onto...