Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson was greatly hindered by poor lighting and a small floor...
...from Uvalde that Detroit, Mich, is from Washington, D. C., they are both in the same State and for many years Sam Rayburn was overshadowed by John Nance Garner. He was in fact one of Garner's able lieutenants. In the House he seldom makes speeches on the floor and often appears at the back of the chamber standing by the hour with his arms on the rail behind the rearmost row of seats, quietly keeping an eye on what is happening, conferring in whispers with colleagues...
Biggest and reputedly best of Harvard's bureaus is run by Harold ("Hal") Wolff. Tutor Wolff, who graduated magna cum lande in anthropology in 1929, launched the practice of advertising in the Harvard Crimson his willingness to be of assistance in preparing for approaching examinations. He rents a floor in a dingy building directly across from the freshman dormitories, hires 21 assistants, tutors about 500 students a year. Rates are $4 an hour for private work, $2.50 for class reviews. Tutor Wolff's proudest boasts are that he has never run afoul of University Hall, that...
...gong brought trading to an end on the New York Stock Exchange one afternoon last week a group of men stepped forth upon the rostrum high over the paper-littered floor. One member of the group was Exchange President Charles Richard Gay, another Alfred Emanuel Smith, who was there to make a plea for New York's United Hospital Fund. Clerks were still yelling, messengers scurrying, tickers clacking. When Mr. Smith was introduced to the brokers even the sound-amplifying system could scarcely be heard above...
...Louder!" cried the floor brokers, most of whom had not the faintest idea why Al Smith had decided to pay them a visit. President Gay then made a welcoming speech but that, too, was lost in the Exchange's vasty spaces. "Louder! Louder!" shouted the brokers as Mr. Smith began to ask for hospital contributions. Desperate, officials ordered all Exchange machinery stopped for the duration of the Smith remarks. "This is the last place to explain that in the past six years we have been passing through a world-wide depression," rumbled the once Happy Warrior...