Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alben Barkley of Kentucky sat quietly in his Majority Leader chair on the Senate floor one day last week looking well contented. The great debate on the Relief bill was under way and he thought he knew how the voting would go. It would be close, but Alben Barkley repeatedly assured the White House that he had lined up five more votes than necessary to insert Senator McKellar's amendment to raise the total of $725,000,000 appropriated by the bill (the House figure) to $875,000,000, the figure desired by the Administration. So sure of himself...
Milton, also beaten badly by last year's Freshman five, was unable to find the Harvard basket from the floor throughout the entire game, and only averted a shutout when Wheeler, Milton guard, tossed in two gift shots...
...they might, the academy boys simply could not find the range on the Crimson basket. The tenacious guarding of the Crimson prevented the Milton quintet from working the ball in near the basket, and even good set shots from out on the floor were few and far between. The harder they tried the wilder they became, and the final gun found them vainly trying to connect from almost mid-court...
Fire, attributed by janitor Sheehan to careless smoking, caused considerable damage to several first floor rooms of an exclusive Harvard undergraduate lodging house at 59 Plympton Street, Cambridge, on Saturday night, and injured one city fireman...
...fire department managed to confine the conflagration to two sitting rooms and a hall on the first floor, but it threatened for a while to spread throughout the entire building. Bedrooms located on the first floor also escaped damage, as did the Fly Club, nearby parent organization...