Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following speeches by members of the Council, the floor will be open to the audience so that Freshmen can ask any questions they may have. "Upperclassmen who are Government concentrators are cordially invited to attend and participate in the discussions," said Richard T. Davie '88, chairman of the executive committee of the organization...
Barrels of sorghum molasses that the soldiers could not carry off were overturned in the basement and this syrup scraped from the brick floor was the family's only sweetening for some weeks thereafter...
...trial in Somerset, Pa. last month went a State policeman who had helped to make Frank Monaghan confess. A husky. 25-year-old six-footer, Trooper Stacey Gunderman readily admitted that he had picked up the suspect, hurled him to the concrete floor, jumped on him-but only in self defense, after the old man had attacked...
Dean Russell was overwhelmed by 9,000 petitions to keep Professor Kilpatrick on. A similar petition came from Executive Secretary Frederick Redefer of the Progressive Education Association, convening in St. Louis. When Kilpatrickites threatened to bring the matter to the floor of the convention, Dean Russell relented, announced that Teachers College would arrange a lectureship for Professor Kilpatrick next year...
...States, appeared in the person of Oklahoma's eloquent Senator Josh Lee, who demanded a "draft of all money and materials of war as well as men." Stealing Teachers College thunder, the Legion Schoolmasters hustled a resolution to that effect past the Resolutions Committee directly to the floor. Having passed it with only four dissenting votes, the superintendents began audibly to wonder whether they had voted for conscription as well as against profiteering, decided they had not. Before going home full of ideas and orders for equipment, the superintendents also...