Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little forest of tripods. Behind the desk stood a group of Senators, Cabinet Members, State Department officials. At the desk, of course, sat President Coolidge, in frock coat and wing collar. On his right sat Vice President Dawes, on his left, Secretary of State Kellogg, behind his chair stood Idaho's square-faced Borah and Virginia's militant Swanson. All eyes turned toward the green morocco case resting on the desk. It contained the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, officially titled "The General Treaty for the Renunciation of War." There was a moment of fidgeting and shifting while...
After a preliminary, characteristic sweep of the left hand over his thin black hair, Tycoon Young hitched his chair a trifle and said...
...Century Limited pulled into Grand Central Station, Manhattan, and a man whose figure and stride made other travelers look like weaklings, smiled at reporters and told them to follow him into the Hotel Biltmore. There, the onetime Rooseveltian Rough Rider named Robert Wright Stewart sat in a little blue chair and said: "In the third place, I sincerely hope that Mr. Rockefeller is having a very nice time on his trip abroad...
...Professor John Tucker Murray, of the Class of 1899, has been appointed to fill the vacancy. Ten years as member of the English department and four years as director of the Harvard Summer School indicate a wide and qualifying experience, which augurs well for his incumbency of the English chair...
...steamer Russia at Castle Garden, with $40 in bills sewed in the pocket of his second-best waistcoat, Adolph Zukor had been busy all the time. First, for $2 a week, he helped an upholsterer, but he weighed less than 100 pounds then, and pushing down sofa and chair springs while he wove fabric round them was too hard for him. Feeling his strength passing, he got a new job in a furrier's shop, and after working for several years started a little business of his own in Chicago. At the World's Fair of 1893 he paid...