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Miss Sweetie Poo, an “exceptionally cute” nine-year-old girl, cut short speakers who exceeded their time limit by strolling up to the lecturn and saying, “Please stop, I’m bored. Please stop, I’m bored. Please stop, I’m bored...

Author: By Ravi Agrawal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hilarity Wins at Ig Nobel Prize Show | 10/5/2001 | See Source »

Weber and Brooks led the two wolves around theclassroom to meet the spectators. "They love topull gum off from under desks," Brown said as Silanuzzled a lecturn in Sever...

Author: By Susan M. Carls, | Title: Listeners Learn to Love Last Leaping Lupines | 11/10/1990 | See Source »

Primo Vannicelli, a government graduate student, said that since there had been no strong opposition in the faculty students were leaving the refuge of the lecturn for the influence of the pulpit, the podium, and the soap...

Author: By James C. Kitch, | Title: When Will Intellectuals Become Activists? | 5/14/1968 | See Source »

...speech was a tour de force in which Castro managed to touch on every single sore point of the solidarity conference. He delivered a stinging slap to the Soviets, denouncing their assistance to Brazil and Colombia. Capping it off, pounding on the lecturn and waving papers in the air, he said...

Author: By Tom Reston, | Title: HABANA 1967 | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

Baker's stature, like the stature of great Harvard professors of the past and present, results not from the material he dispensed from the lecturn, but from a personality which was reflected in the work of each young man who came to him for counsel...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: George Pierce Baker: Prism for Genius | 11/6/1957 | See Source »

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