Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...store at Bellows Falls, Vt. It was the sort of store that has been made familiar to everybody as a stage-set for dramas of New England-a long room with a stove in it, a few boxes of sweet crackers, a teamster or two, a cat in a chair, a dingy glass case filled with painted chocolates and striped stick candy. A bell rang when you opened the door, and John Shedd's employer rose from his rocking-chair to indicate that questions might be addressed to him. Harried by life, the storekeeper distrusted all men, but most...
Uncle George Clay is the central figure, a patriarchal country doctor of many opinions and few patients, the patron saint of practical joking, as prodigal of his considerable wit and scholarship as he is of his money. He sits in his big chair playing with his "chilluns," drinking punch, arguing temperance, theology, education; jesting coarsely, slyly, uproariously; secretly planning, and executing, gruff generosities...
...first endowed professorship for instance, was based on a annual income of about 200 dollars a year. There are many other cases where the salary for an endowed chair is paid largely by the University...
First Endowed Chair...
...satisfactory to all concerned, there was a good deal of wrangling and bitterness in Cambridge. However, at the end of 1721, Edward Wigglesworth was chosen the first professor under the amended articles of the endowment and he served long and honorably in that capacity. The present incumbent of the chair is Professor J. H. Ropes...