Word: desks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican Club is planning to have a desk placed in the hall of the Union where information about absentee voting may be procured...
...Lecture Hall at quarter past three yesterday afternoon five proctors started to distribute the ancient author examinations in Sophocles. At seventeen minutes past the proctor in the middle aisle ran out of papers. He thought for a moment, then he went to the central desk. He obtained the remaining papers and distributed them. There was still a fringe of snapping fingers in the outer seats and there were no more examination papers. Precisely enough had been printed to supply those who had registered for the examination. The arrival of several unregistered examinees had left the proctors in the situation...
...click of a switch super-power "scream amplifiers" came into action, and words conversationally spoken into a microphone on the desk of the President of the Diet resounded through the hall like deafening thunder peals...
...last he closed his desk, said was going North on business. A few days later a series of revelations and a contemporaneous series of shocks began. Treasurer Carnes's accounts were audited-no perfunctory audit, this-and Baptists earned that the accounts were a million, perhaps more, dollars short. The Atlanta Constitution printed on its front page a facsimile of a postal department dossier which showed that Carnes twice had been indicted for using the mails to defraud. Shocked though they were, Atlanta Baptists early thought of the honor and credit of the Home Mission Board, immediately established...
...Governor of New York thanked the Governor of Nebraska, reflected that the "raddio"* is indeed a marvelous thing, and sat down at the Governor of Nebraska's desk...