Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Submitting before the recent emphasis on squash as a means of exercise, wrestling, boxing, and fencing will be loss adequately provided for in the new building. However, a large basketball floor which can be divided into halves and a general room for badminton, volley ball, and exercising will be included in addition to the squash courts...
...Year, 1937, I nominate Congressman Hatton W. Sumners of Texas. Here is a statesman and a great patriot, a man with the courage of his convictions. His speech on the floor in Congress, in opposition to the Court packing plan, will go down in history as one of the most important factors in the defeat of that bill...
During the past month workmen have been laying the concrete floor of a big new laboratory next to the old building. In this a tremendous cyclotron with a 220-ton magnet will be installed, hurling deuterons at 12,000,000 to 20,000,000 volts, alpha particles at 24,000,000 to 40,000,000. When completed the new building will contain biochemical laboratories and a clinic. San Francisco's late William Henry Crocker gave $75,000 for this project, the Chemical Foundation $68,000, Dr. Lawrence estimates that he needs about $35,000 more. Designer...
...some 75 agents for U. S. textbook publishers sucked at and crushed out innumerable cigarets, talked in strained voices. They were waiting for the Texas State Board of Education to award contracts worth millions of dollars for 29 books for Texas schoolchildren. Of all the agents, none paced the floor more nervously than those of Manhattan's Harcourt, Brace & Co. and Chicago's Row, Peterson Co. Everyone knew that the fiercest schoolbook contest of the year in Texas was between these two, for the adoption of a seventh-grade history...
...complete set of the DeSilva equipment, formerly located in Hemenway gymnasium, will be placed on the fourth floor of the show, where it will be explained and operated by the students. The machinery, which cost $50,000 and took four years to develop, will be in continuous operation for the duration of the show...