Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advantages of such a Book Center are two-fold. First it would establish a balance between graduate students and undergraduates, as far as library facilities were concerned. To get a book in the Center would mean turning around in a chair and picking it off the shelves. And if a student wished to pursue a subject at length, the staff could give him adequate and exact references in Widener...
...sponge, my lord?" and "O, come away! My soul is full of discord and dismay." All during the lecture he nodded and frowned and bowed and articulated to himself. When the instructor read a particularly stirring passage, the little man would shut his book, lean back in his chair, and with eyes closed, would sway from side to side like a cobra, hypnotized by the music of the verse...
...Gastonia strike Prisoner Beal had oddly little to say last week. One of his prosecutors then was Clyde Roark Hoey, who as Governor of North Carolina now has the power to pardon Fred Beal. Lolling in the witness chair, Witness Beal declared that Party leaders deliberately made the trial a vehicle for Communist propaganda, inflaming the southern jurors and dooming the defendants. Afterward, said he, Communists in Manhattan worked their false passport racket, shipped him and his fellows off "to show the Russians by our coming that there was a bad situation in America...
...tolerated in such a high official position or whether the indignation of the world is stronger than the unscrupulousness of a notorious British liar. There is no doubt, Mr. Churchill, that you will be found guilty by any court of justice-now you are standing before the judgment chair of a world tribunal. The accused, Winston Churchill, now has the floor. . . . Stand, rascal, and answer...
...arriving to open their stalls in Berlin markets, promptly pooled their pfennigs to buy cheap brandy and new cider. French Premier Edouard Daladier was supposed by the jubilant Germans to have secured the "Armistice," and in Berlin's huckster-jammed Wittenberg Platz a tipsy citizen, balancing on a chair with glass in hand, bellowed a toast: "Daladier is smarter than we thought...