Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Again shows him in predicaments inglorious enough to bring about the fall of any government. His eyebrows upped with vague uneasiness, he hands a match to Mussolini, who is lighting a bomb under his chair. Perched beside Colonel Blimp on a raging volcano, he spurns Litvinoff's assistance in putting out the fire: "Sorry," he says, as the flames roast his rear, "but we don't want to burn our fingers." Cartoonist Low is almost as good in his caricatures of General Franco, but his drawings of Franco are in his old mood, give the General something...
President Masaryk. Two years before his death last September he passed the presidency to his assistant, Eduard Benes, then his Foreign Minister. Today, this co-founder sits in Masaryk's chair in the Hradcany, the castle of the Kings of Bohemia which towers above the capital city of Prague...
Throughout the day historic rites will be observed, linking the University with its beginnings 300 years ago. These picturesque affairs will include the opening of the morning exericses by High Sheriff McElroy of Middlesex County; the seating of the president in an ancient Tudor chair, and many others...
...Henry K. Oliver Professorship foundation put the Hygiene Department on a formal basis in 1915, with Dr. Roger I. Lee, present member of the Corporation, as the first holder of the chair. He was the first to have several assistants, and he it was who made physical education compulsory for Freshmen and started routine physical examinations. Offices of the department were then in Sever Hall, but with the appointment of Dr. Alfred Worcester in 1924, Wadsworth House became the department's headquarters, and two branch offices were set up. Dr. Worcester inaugurated such basic operations of the department...
...that has been needed to make radio listening a completely sedentary occupation was elimination of the necessity for struggling up out of a comfortable chair to cross the room and tune another station. The eliminator made its appearance last week when at a dealers' and distributors' Chicago convention, Philco Radio & Television Corp. engineers demonstrated their new Mystery Control unit...