Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iowa State College a professor of chemical engineering predicted the self-dusting chair-a plastic product with a slight negative charge of electricity which would repel dust particles...
...more than conventional length, but there was general agreement that it could stand some cutting. As a piece of writing it is rich in poetry. As drama, it puts a heavy burden on its three main actors. For minutes on end the only action is the moving of a chair, and all the significant events have occurred long before the curtain rises...
There were 300 guests that evening at the pot-roast supper in the basement of the Methodist Church-all the place would hold. Miss Lizzie, who used to be superintendent of the Sunday school, sat in the guest of honor's chair in her best black crepe dress with the beaded yoke, and an orchid, her first...
Last week a pent-up man eased his big frame into a desk chair in a plainly furnished 16th-floor ofnce in Manhattan's Steinway Building. The man was Dr. Artur Rodzinski, conductor of New York's renowned Philharmonic-Symphony. His small eyes, almost concealed behind thick glasses, took in his audience: seven tense members of the Philharmonic's executive committee...
Next week's arm-chair theatregoers will hear Moliere's "The Doctor In Spite of Himself," Following productions will include "Mrs. Warren's Profession" by Shaw, "The Way of the World" by Congreve, "Riders to the Sea" by Singe, "The Adding Machine" by Rice, "Awake and Sing" by Odets...