Word: desks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Near the end of the second year in high school, I secured a desk position in a library, and it was then that thoughts of college entered my head. But they came by accident, for no one in our family had ever gone to college, and such an education was for rich men's sons, according to the traditions at our house. One evening, as I sat puzzling over a lesson for the morrow, Professor Ira N. Hollis, who is now President of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, came and sat on my desk. During our conversation I told him that...
Secretary of State Kellogg, from his desk in the State Department, is supposed to speak with the voice of the U. S., whenever the U. S. wants to speak to foreign powers. He alone has the authority to say what the U. S. wants...
...researches, preliminary to these remarks, I found myself needing a more accurate definition of a certain trade term, no doubt thoroughly familiar to all of you, than I was able to command. The word was 'Rayon.' But when I pulled down the alleged unabridged dictionary on my desk, I searched in vain for it. I finally found it in a technical handbook." It was not charged that quotation of the President in this instance amounted to fraud, but it was noticed that this was the second attempt this month to capitalize Mr. Coolidge in a stock-selling campaign...
Announcement has been made by the college office that a new issue of the "Rules Relating to College Studies" has been brought out. Copies may be procured at the information desk in 4 University Hall...
...Editor McClure happen to have returned to his desk? Where did he get the money? Every one knew that he was a wealthy man when he retired in 1912. But scores of trips to Europe consume money and Mr. McClure's books (My Autobiography, 1914; Obstacles to Peace, 1917) could hardly have brought in the purchase price of even the middle-aged McClure...