Word: floored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Larynx. It is a long time since the voice of Senator T. Coleman du Pont of Delaware was heard on the Senate floor. Illness kept him absent most of last term. Now Senator du Pont's own voice will never be heard again. He was reported convalescent in Manhattan last week after an operation for ulcer of the throat which necessitated removal or derangement of his vocal chords and adjacent portions of his tongue and windpipe. An artificial larynx was installed...
...friend, Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, who used to be a college president* and still looks like one though he long since mastered the art of big politics-mastered it so well that he has come to be regarded as President Coolidge's mouthpiece on the Senate floor. President Coolidge once tried to dispel this aura from Senator Fess by saying that not even in the Senate days of William Morgan Butler of Massachusetts did the Coolidge Administration have an accredited Senate spokesman. Nevertheless, Senator Fess continued welcome at the White House and constantly was seen there. This...
...outside, whose appearance alone is sufficient to draw the crowd. The latter procedure, while of considerable value in itself, has proved a weakening influence on the primary purpose of the Union. Members have been awed by a flow of professional eloquence, the invited heckling and speeches from the floor have failed to be forthcoming, and the meeting has resolved itself into a monologue...
...South American graduate of Oxford who has spoken widely in England and in the United States who will uphold the affirmative, and J. P. Baxter, History Tutor and instructor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics, who will support the negative. After the four speakers have finished, the floor will be open to all who may wish to speak...
...Bellevue Laboratory, Washington, D. C., to work out a means of detecting the approach of submarines. The naval officers who are studying at Harvard this year will work with the hydrophone, an instrument used for depth finding, signalling under water, the detection of objects on the ocean floor, and the transmission of speech through the sea. The radio will be the special field of some of lie men, as the primary, and often the only means of communication...