Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...event of the day occurred in the Reichstag, where a Monarchist coalition supports its Cabinet. The interior of the Chamber was decorated with flowers by Monarchist Minister of Interior Schiele. President von Hindenburg was ensconced in a chair in the Diplomatic Gallery. To one side was Jacob Gould Schurman, U. S. Ambassador. On the floor of the Chamber were perfumed ladies, masses of Monarchists, some Republicans, no Communists...
Precisely what occurred was the opening session of the Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission, General John J. Pershing in the Chair; Señor Agustin Edwards,* head of the Chilean delegation, in another chair; Señor Freyre, head of Peru's delegation, in a third chair. They had assembled to decide the terms under which a plebiscite, ordered by Arbitrator Calvin Coolidge (TIME, Mar. 16), is to be held to decide the future sovereignty of the Provinces of Tacna and Arica, wrested from Peru in the War of the Pacific...
...Geneva met a commission of the League of Nations to draw up rules of procedure for an Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, which is soon to be opened at Paris. Professor Sir Gilbert Murray, in the absence of M. Bergson, ill, was in the chair. Among those present: Senator Henri de Jouvenal (France), Dr. Vernon Kellogg of the National Research Council (U. S.), Prof. Albert Einstein (Germany), Senator Ruffini (Italy), Prof. Gonzague de Reynold (Switzerland), M. Destree (Belgium), Dr. Casares (Spain), Prof. de Halecki (Poland), ex-Premier Buero (Uruguay), Dr. Gastro (Brazil...
Briskly he walked to the umpire's chair, removed, for the first time at Glencoe, his shaggy sweater. He called for a pitcher of ice-water, dashed its contents over his head. Rolling up his sleeves, he prepared to serve. "Ooh," gasped the crowd. Tilden put down his rocket, called for a towel that he might dry his hands. A famed actress cried out helplessly: "That man is immortal." Then, deliberately, he served. A great cheer went up. Kinsey, unnerved by this mummery, bungled; superbly the champion swept up the set, the victory...
...Duchess of York, former Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, opened at London an international conference of women engaged in scientific research. Lady Astor, beaming, was in the chair...