Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Promotion of the Medical Sciences will be held this afternoon at 5 o'clock in the Amphitheatre of Building C at the Medical School on Longwood Avenue. The lecture, which will be open to the public, will be given by Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, holder of the chair, on "Some Factors of Coordination in Muscular Acts...
...Rockefeller Hospital, and from 1912 to 1915 he held the post of resident physician at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and later that of physician. Subsequently becoming visiting physician and director of the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, connected with the Boston City Hospital, he next accepted the chair of Professor of Medicine at the Medical School...
...plans for the building of a new home for the League. French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand dozed, snored, awoke, fidgeted. Suddenly he sat upright, waved to German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann to follow him outside. Both statesmen arose. M. Briand annoyed the earnest delegates by knocking over a chair and received their concentrated glare for his clumsiness...
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (pronounced Karlee'neen), first chairman of the Soviet Union Central Executive Committee, leaned back in his chair, his face wreathed in gratification. There on his desk in his private office in the Kremlin, Moscow, was an invitation from the City of Boston to participate in its third centenary celebration in 1930. So high an honor could not be refused. With a grin and a flourish the invitation was accepted, a delegation named to proceed to Boston for the event...
Through a long afternoon filled with soporific technicalities that occasionally snorted into colorful blasphemy, the whiskered "stool pigeon of King George" tilted far back in his swivel chair, read the Chicago Tribune comic strip about Andrew Gump, Minerva Gump, etc., etc. Above the edge of the newspaper, courtroom idlers could see Mr. McAndrew's iron grey hair. Occasionally he put the newspaper down and chuckled. Then the idlers noted his white whiskers well tinged with red, his high color, his eyebrows that laid a direct black line across his forehead...