Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lyman has been the director of Jefferson Physical Laboratory for well over half of its 63-year history. He has been a member of the faculty since 1902, although in 1926 he retired from his chair as Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy...
Gear for the Rana. The Rana of Koti, however, rode in a sedan chair, as befitted the ruler of the Indian state in which the grove of Sipi is situated. To make the rural expedition bearable for the Rana and his guests, the princes from neighboring hill states, an enormous amount of paraphernalia had been carried over mountains by mule and coolie. This included three sofas, a dozen overstuffed chairs, 100 straight chairs, tents, doormats, 50 small tables complete with luncheon service, and two Victorian hatracks...
...hand had done most of the work of lifting the Post's face. Five years ago, when the Post was in a slump, plump Editor Wesley Winans Stout stepped out. Before his chair had cooled, Curtis Publishing Co.'s President Walter D. Fuller set Ben Hibbs in it, and gave him plenty of elbow room. A tall, quiet-spoken Phi Beta Kappa Kansan, 45-year-old Ben Hibbs had been putting some spring in the Country Gentleman's step...
...Style. Willie had his plan. "I'm wearing my Sunday pants and my Sunday heart to the chair. Ain't going to wear no beat-up pants to see the Lord. Been busy talking my way into heaven for this past year. Them folks expecting me to come in style...
Willie did. In a crowded little room stood the same portable electric chair. Willie smiled. He wiped his palms on his pants and sat down. He had nothing to say. He might have remembered the last time. (Last time, "everything begun to look dazey. ... It was like the white folks watching was in a big swing, and they'd swing away and back and then right up close.") In the silence the sheriff pulled the switch. This time Willie was carried away from the portable electric chair...