Word: lecterns
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...some time now, Professor Carl Friedrich has been petitioning his classes to support him in a campaign for a new lectern. At present, the lectern consists of two boxes and a small tilted stand which has a tendency to fall off. Professor Friedrich is not a hyperactive or even overly nervous lecturer--yet the stand on which his notes are placed slips off without much provocation...
...spectate the exuberant Roosevelt could not. He continually participated in class discussions, and insisted on arguing with his professors. He was not content to let words of wisdom wash lightly over him from the lectern. His persistent questions and protests once so exasperated his science professor, Nathaniel Shaler, that the latter exploded, "See here, Roosevelt, let me talk. I'm running this course...
...tall, jaunty lecturer who took his place behind the lectern in London's Royal Festival Hall was obviously a personable sort. But that was no guarantee that he would not also be a crashing bore. After all, he was pretty much of an amateur at the illustrated lecture business. His subject, "My Story of the Commonwealth Tour," sounded a bit dull, and his audience-2,000 teen-agers imported by the Ministry of Education's Imperial Institute from schools in London and the Home Counties-was not the easiest kind to handle. Nevertheless, from the minute His Royal...
...Salt Lake City's Rainbow Randevu dance hall (serving as a political auditorium for the occasion), Nixon gripped the sides of his lectern to keep himself erect. Photographers edged forward, setting their cameras to picture the Vice President at his moment of collapse. Behind Nixon, Dr. Todd crouched anxiously a few feet away. But somehow Nixon made it. finishing the speech that he later described as "the toughest of my life...
...After a word from the sponsor (Corn Products Refining Co.-salad oil, syrup, cornstarch, etc.), the Attorney General of the U.S. grasped his lectern mike, crisply reported that the Department of Justice was about to start a civil action under the antitrust laws against General Motors, charging it with "unlawful activities which have given it a monopolistic position in the manufacture of buses...