Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Flynt, who "tuted" for 56 years straight. It was the custom 200 years ago for the students to present their tutor with silverware, but Flynt amassed so much silver that his last graduating class could not decide on a gift. They finally presented him with a large silver chamber-pot, which the students carried across the Yard on a Crimson cushion
...their cavernous new marble chamber, against their rich red velvet backdrop, the nine U. S. Supreme Court Justices looked magnificent but could hear little. To improve acoustics, more red velvet curtains were draped at either end of the bench. Result was to cast the justices into shadowy gloom. Last week the red curtains, side and rear, were swathed in white, and only in the front half of the chamber were inverted ceiling lights switched on. Thus the audience was thrown into shadow, the black-robed old actors into brilliant relief...
...Anderson was maintaining a strong magnetic field across the chamber which would curve the paths of flying electric particles. By the direction of curvature he could tell whether they were positively or negatively charged. He had also shrewdly inserted a lead plate in the chamber. A particle which passed through this plate would be weakened by the passage, hence more sharply curved on the far side by the magnetic field. Thus the physicist could tell which way it had traveled along the track...
...incredible but true that in hard-headed France, M. Philibert has got away with printing a fantastic international money which he calls the Europa Franc and which he manages to spend in the shops of his native district of Haute Loire which sent him in 1932 to the Chamber of Deputies. It was not his constituents but the Chamber which deprived Philibert of his seat last March, after he had infringed French law in various eccentric ways, always escaping from the police to Belgium in a bright blue straw hat. Last week Incredible Philibert, the Zioncheck of France, was arrested...
Young Mr. Hirschmann banded together a non-profit organization of music lovers called the New Friends of Music, Inc., announced that they would run this winter a series of 16 concerts devoted to the more erudite chamber music and songs of Brahms and Beethoven. To attract sincere music lovers and discourage the carriage trade, they held their prices down to $1.10 top, promised to get not the most noted performers but the most competent. Old hands predicted ruefully that they would run aground. Last week when the New Friends opened the doors of New York's big Town Hall...