Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...credited Hugo Black with belonging to the Ku Klux Klan before nominating him to the Supreme Court, he could scarcely have failed to learn about it soon afterward. Before the Senate confirmed the nomination, the subject of Hugo Black's connection with the Klan was discussed on the floor. By last week, at least nine Senators who had voted for Hugo Black had hastily announced that they would not have done so if they had been assured that he was a member of the Klan. Senators Walsh and Copeland suggested that Mr. Black resign. Montana's Burton...
...Harvard Trust Company, now a few feet higher than its neighbor, the Coop, has taken out the two revolving doors which formerly held sway and has replaced them with one entrance. Also the have moved the banking counter from the center of the floor to the Northern side of the building. New fixtures have been installed...
Previously, a buffet lunch was served to the 302nd crop of Harvard students and a sprinkling of gentlemen of unidentified classes. After withstanding and returning the individual curiosity of one another and the Union waitresses the guests retired to the floor of the main dining hall which grew ever harder as the reception progressed...
Boston newspaper photographers climbed on ladders, lay on the floor and hung from the lights, in all effort to get original angles. The flash bulbs turned solemn Memorial into a scene resembling the opening session of a National Convention...
...second floor hallway, just in front of the Reading Room is devoted to a display of early texts used in the class rooms, and other material relative to the early years of the College. Some of the eighteenth century student's comments make amusing, if familiar, reading to librarians who spend a good part of their time erasing similar comments. One particularly dull book has been inscribed by "Read 3 chapters a day and 2 days of ye weeks read 4 and you may read it in over a month...