Word: lectern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clashes with the Government, the outlook was none too bright. Last year the president of Episcopal St. Paul's University, Tokyo, was forced to resign because, in reading the hallowed Imperial rescript on education in chapel on a national holiday, he stood on the altar steps, below the lectern where the Bible is read, thus ranking the Mikado lower than...
...rose over dewy treetops, the chimes pealed out Nearer, My God, to Thee. The climax of the two-hour service: when diminutive Nancy Brown stepped to the lectern, peeped over and in a tremulous voice spoke to her readers for the first time...
...transport men who went to the National Aviation Forum in Washington to meet old friends, hear speeches, were not surprised to find the name of Grover Loening on the list of speakers. Sitting in the Department of Commerce auditorium, they saw toothy Grover Loening square off behind the lectern, lay down his spectacles, and tell them what they were missing...