Word: noon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serves as the President's Rapid City executive office runs a corridor. In the corridor is a bench on which sit those awaiting a presidential audience. On the bench one morning last week sat a Wyoming dirt farmer, his wife, his daughter. From ten o'clock until noon they sat, patient, vigilant. On the stroke of twelve the President came out of the office, bowed to the trio, passed on. Called the farmer to a nearby Secret Service man: "Is that the President? 'Well, come on, Mandy; now we can say we seen...
...Capital is still where a plump forefinger placed it; and last week His Majesty's Governor General, Viscount Willingdon, fittingly upheld there the dignity of the Crown by presiding over a series of Diamond Jubilee ceremonies lasting, on the principal day, from before noon until after midnight. Most impressive was the maiden ringing of a huge, sweetly toned new carillon from the Tower of the Canadian Parliament. As the bells pealed, their reverberations spread throughout the Dominion upon a network of repeatedly amplified radio waves...
...until the last day of examinations. Only those happy individuals who have managed to avoid the first year monster, German A, have the privilege of deserting the scene of their labors at an early date. The rest, a group which includes most of the class, are fixtures until the noon which opens the recess...
Luncheons of the noon hour rush crowd in the Traymore Cafeteria on Harvard Square were brought to a sudden close yesterday by a fire which burned out several yards of the dining room...
...wish to second Mr. Fry's suggestions about the proposed dining hall. May I add the recommendation that in consideration of the present laboratory and noon class schedules, the hall might well open for lunch at a quarter or half past eleven? I might also call attention to the fact that a matter of a few cents in the price of each meal might make a large difference in the proportion of students who would forsake restaurants to eat at the hall. Henry B. Brainerd...