Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee has considered setting up a dental chair, Cobb said, but such a project would be very expensive, and there are other clinics to take care of such cases...
Said King Abdullah: "The Turks and the Arabs are neighbors and brothers who for centuries .. . shaped the history of the East. The day will come when they will unite again and serve the Orient to shine once more." But one chair was conspicuously empty at the feast. Syria's Minister, Ihsan Elsherif, had providentially absented himself. King Abdullah nimbly sidestepped the misunderstanding between Turkey and Arab Syria, which forms the chief bar to Arab-Turk unity. "Turkey and Syria are neighbors," he said, "much more qualified to understand the situation than myself...
...Deaver turned to a small figure with blue-ribboned braids in a small wheelchair. "Come on, honey," he said. Five-year-old Maureen Eagan (paralyzed by polio since the age of two) gravely slipped out of her chair, toddled shakily across the floor and fell into the doctor's arms. Said Deaver, as she buried a brown head in his shoulder: "She's going to walk as well as anyone...
...were also named to fill the Gordon McKay Professorships of Applied Physics and Mathematics. Leon N. Brillouin is to fill the Mathematics chair beginning next July, While Ronald W. P. King will assume his new Physics post immediately...
Soprano Lawrence, a polio victim, appeared in her now familiar wheel chair to sing the immolation scene from Wagner's Gotterdammerung. Said one German afterwards: "Wagner has now been officially denazified...