Word: lecterns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abandoned to the local rabbits. Although his material varies to suit each year's students, the last lecture of his courses is always of standard brilliance. Last year, for instance, Nash created an iodine smoke screen to cap his performance in Chemistry 2. The purple vapors rising from the lectern obscured him, and when the violet smoke settled, he had vanished from the platform for an other year...
...gestures are well known. In his smaller courses, he stalks about the lectern, keeping time to the fast pace of his words with his whole body. But in Social Sciences II, an enrollment of over 650 students chains him to a microphone, and reduces him to wild movement with his hands. Gauging the relative importance of his remarks is easy. An idea emphasized by a gentle wave means little, but anything accompanied by a fist brought up from the floor with a twisting motion is liable to be on the examination...
Power & Circumstance. Davis walked back to his seat and mopped his lips with a white linen handkerchief as Phil Perlman lumbered up to the lectern. Perlman plunged directly into his principal defense: the President seized Big Steel because the safety of the U.S. demanded that the plants be kept open. Truman was not usurping powers of Congress; he had invited Congress to pass a law covering the situation the day after the seizure. "The President said he would abide by whatever Congress did," said Perlman. "He made that crystal-clear." Birdlike little Justice Frankfurter squeaked in agitation. "Are you suggesting...
Truman raced tonelessly through the concluding sentences of his prepared speech, snapped shut the leather notebook with his script and stepped back from the lectern. He came forward again when photographers summoned him and smiled, a little tightly. He turned to Bess Truman, who had risen, and drew her into range of the television cameras. His smile broadened, and he backed away again and, parting a curtain, left...
...Down. You can read more easily and with less strain if your torso is erect. Put a bench or chair on a table and use it as a breast-high lectern. Lean on it all you want...