Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Privy Councilor Bach, with cool presence of mind, reached for and lit a cigaret. Leaning back in his swivel chair, he puffed a moment, then quietly remarked, "I will hear your explanation...
...keeping it as it is, and is allowed five minutes for the speech. Each man, according to the parliamentary system, upon entering the room chooses his side, the "ayes" placing themselves on the right hand of the chairman, L. T. Grimm '29, who will preside in the speaker's chair. Cheek, representing the affirmative, will open the debate by putting the motion before the house. As mover of the motion, he also has the privilege of speaking last. After he has concluded, representatives of either side speak alternately, having been first recognized by the chair...
...Harvard in 1906. In 1905 he became an instructor in physics and held the position for five years until his appointment to an assistant professorship in the Physics Department in 1910. In 1919 he became a professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Engineering School and has held the chair ever since. During the war Dr. Davis was an aeronautical engineer in the air service and performed many services of much value in that connection...
...fully to his Fidelity & Deposit Co. and his American Bonding Co., to his Manhattan law firm (Roosevelt & O'Connor) and to the presidential candidacy of his friend, Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York, whose pre-convention campaign of 1924 he managed from the confines of a wheel chair...
...expert lawyers were imported to prosecute, and Alma Petty Gatlin, who had once been voted the prettiest girl in the village, sat and listened to one of them, a thin man with an acidulous voice, calling her story "thin air," and urging that she be killed in the electric chair...