Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democrats, four Republicans. Of the Democrats, six were non-New Dealers until the defeat of Representative Driver of Arkansas and now of New York's O'Connor. With Republican aid the six non-New Dealers have blockaded Administration measures, notably the Wages-&-Hours Bill. A chair-man far more amenable than John O'Connor would be the next man in line by seniority: Chicago's diligent old Adolph J. Sabath. But Mr. Sabath, 72, is not forceful. Gossip in Washington last week was that he might be asked, as a good New Deal soldier, to step...
Lancelot Hogben is a blue-eyed, tousel-haired British biologist of 42 who once occupied a chair of Social Biology at the University of London, and who has educated himself in many fields of science...
...kaleidoscopic memories wafted their feather-like way through his brain, his gaze drifted around the many walls which encircle his new penthouse cubicle. Before him the desk, the calendar, the typewriter. Well enough; they had been so in the past. And there was the Falstaffian old leather Morris chair with its spinster companion, the ever slightly drunken bridge lamp, leaning confidentially over its shoulder--looking the same as ever. But will the old combination still breed the same pleasant spawn of thoughts, the Vagabond wondered? Could they still whisper the same mental innuendoes of Donne when he thought of English...
...annual wheeze about Freshman advisers is David Dickinson '20, the big man with the broad brimmed hat, who for fifteen years has on fair days followed the fire engines in a red three-wheeled contraption that looks like a cross between a kiddie-car and a barber's chair...
...professor teaching a crowd in a class room. He was a very distinct person in a unique relationship with each individual who interested him." Two of his works, the "Copeland Translations" and the "Copeland Reader," were described by Robert Hillyer '17, present holder of Copey's famous chair, an "a Harvard contribution to American letters of which we may justly be proud...