Word: desks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cards of introduction to all the events and tours will be issued at the International Student Association office, 5 Phillips Place, where an information desk will be set up by the NSA. The NSA will also provide guides for the tours...
Only after lengthy deliberation could the Administration have removed the history-covered tables in Sever Hall. Yet, in making this considered move, no one suggested that the tradition of which the tables were a part needed alteration. Like the old, the new arrangement of individual desk-chairs puts a premium on the lecture system in small class rooms. Teacher remains on an enlarged platform with students in rows before...
...ambassador has contrived such varied aids to modern life as self-winding watches, shock absorbers and mine-detecting devices; but his greatest love is the theater. Leaning back behind his cluttered desk in Manhattan this week, he spoke enthusiastically of his longtime friendship with impresarios Morris Gest and David Belasco...
...next thing reporters knew, the mayor popped up at his office at City Hall alone and met another horde of newsmen. One of them tossed a copy of the New York World-Telegram on his desk and pointed to a story of a baker who said he was delivering a wedding cake to the mayor this week. Any comment? Snapped the mayor: "Take that paper off my desk." The "merciless intrusion" of the press, he moaned, "could do a lot toward breaking up my friendship with Miss Simpson...
...theologian, he was called from a pastorate in Nashville, Tenn. in 1903 to be vicar of St. Agnes' Chapel in Manhattan's Trinity parish. Five years later, Dr. Manning became rector of Trinity Church and thus head of the wealthiest Episcopal parish in the U.S. At his desk and in the pulpit, he proved to be a good choice for the job: during his 13-year tenure the Trinity Corp. reduced its debt substantially...