Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their yearly carnival, The Kingmakers settle policy, pick a National Commander to explain and defend their policy. Last week in Los Angeles, where 130,000 Legionnaires went to drink and frolic this year, The Kingmakers worked with extraordinary dispatch, got their work done before the convention convened, averted the floor fights which usually attend their nominating maneuvers...
Leaving his dinner guests, Ross Hull went into his radio room, put on his earphones, was found dead a few minutes later. His body was lying on the floor, hands and face burned, earphones charred...
A.R.R.L. engineers concluded that he had listened for NBC's sound, had reached under the table to plug in his power supply for pictures. In withdrawing his hand he seemed to have brushed loose a high-voltage wire, got a shock which threw him to the floor. There the loose wire apparently completed the circuit to his earphones, may have carried through his head more than a full ampere of current...
...York last week Hearstmen worried about another fire which burned 1,500 tons of paper in the building where the Journal & American is published. Rewrite men stuck to their desks on the sixth floor, wrote the story with wet handkerchiefs dangling over their eyes to keep out the smoke...
Phillips Brooks House's two student counselors, Schafter Williams '32 and Norris P. Swett '37, have moved to large and choosier quarters on the second floor of P.B.H., it was announced yesterday...