Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your note-book, of whatever shape you may have, and your hat, if you wear one, your spare pencil, your spectacles and your watch, with lots of leg-room underneath, to tilt, squirm, or sprawl as the fancy seizes you-or a smooth, varnished wood-and-iron chair, carved to fit your bottom, screwed immovably to the floor, with the right arm designed for writing on, that is widened enough to take one roundish shaped piece of paper or a clip-board, no place to put your elbow, a sort of island in a useless unfriendly void...
Louis Bean must have leaned back in his swivel chair and smiled last Wednesday morning when he read the results of New York's senatorial election. By giving Herbert Lehman a 200,000-vote majority, the electorate helped further to substantiate Bean's remarkable theory, which last year predicted Truman's victory and now calls for a Democratic landslide...
...degree under a Nobel prize winner at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Government is her main interest and she finds Littauer "intellectually stimulating." Following up her class work she has interviewed Boston mayorality candidates and investigated the Cambridge city-manager government; with possible recall to her council chair a constant threat she is jamming her time with activities...
...judge was tolerant. He interrupted the proceedings to point out a chair for a late-arriving spectator; he didn't mind when plump George Rogers, attorney for the defense, propped his leg or rump on the table during crossexamination...
...reality a private study adjacent to a particular field of learning, a carrel provides for the students to whom it is assigned a desk, bookshelves, a comfortable chair, and an adjustable desk light.This senior tries to stretch out in his single carrel...