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Hutchinson finds a similar tendency in church architecture. "Such congregations as have not pulled down their auditoriums (the word is used advisedly) of the Grover Cleveland period to make way for Gothic structures have often felt compelled at least to remodel the chancel so that lectern balances pulpit...
...around his neck the "president's collar" of 20 gold & silver links and a pendant medallion with the arms of Elihu Yale, received the charter, the seal, and the keys of the university "to cherish and defend." Finally, in the tradition of his predecessors, he stepped to the lectern to declare his credo...
Grim Backdrop. Promptly at noon the two leaders, arm in arm, walked down the marble steps of the high-vaulted National Assembly Chamber to a lectern decked with the flags of the Korean Republic, the U.S. and the U.N. Through gaping windows blew the strong, sickly sweet smell of corpses lying in shattered buildings outside. Now & then wisps of ash drifted in, and tinkling splinters of glass fell from the broken skylight above...
Harry Byrd was not on the Senate floor when Freshman Humphrey first discharged his matchlock. But last week Byrd planted himself firmly behind his desk, flipped open a manuscript on the lectern before him and fixed the upstart with a cold, stern eye. After glancing through the Congressional Record, he began, he had found at least nine major misstatements in Humphrey's 2,000-word accusation. He would proceed forthwith to set the Senate straight on the facts...
...secluded Georgetown study poring over the latest arguments of his critics, digesting the bristling headlines and editorials. When he rose at luncheon to speak to the 500 Washington newsmen, guests and Congressmen jammed into the National Press Club ballroom, he propped only a few notes on the lectern before him. Then, summoning the brightest of his lawyer's talents, he launched last week into his case for Asia. It was as close as a Secretary of State could come to a shirt-sleeved defense of policy...