Word: oval
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having seen all these arrangements the President rolled into his own new office?oval like the old one but, by his order, two feet wider, two feet longer. Handsomest room in the building, it is decorated with the great Presidential Seal set in the ceiling, has indirect lighting simulating daylight. All the furniture is old except a new duralumin lamp upon the desk. The President found it all just as he had planned it. Waiting in an adjoining office ?the only one in the building that is pink instead of green?to take his dictation was Private Secretary Marguerite...
Thus White House Offices Inc., in new and enlarged quarters, once more opened wide for business. The head and front of the mythical corporation sat in the oval office in the far corner of the building but his right and his left hand and 120 other auxiliary hands and fingers functioned at every desk and filing cabinet in the whole building. For practical purposes the members of the White House secretariat and the White House staff are so many multiple manifestations of the executive will although each has his own separate name, face and disposition. Most important...
...reduction from $3.30 to $1.65 on 23,893 seats for Saturday's football game at Soldiers Field was announced last night by officials of the Harvard and Princeton Athletic Associations. The seats at the concrete end of the oval from sections 12 through 17 and those in the steel stands from sections 40 through 52 and the ones affected by this announcement...
Australia won the first test match at Nottingham in June. England won the second at Lord's. The next two were draws. The fifth at the Oval (London) last week was to last until one side won, if it took, as Cricket Critic Bernard Darwin wrote, "to all eternity...
...House offices during his absence. When he returned there was nothing left standing save three of those offices' outer walls, and during his first night in the White House he slept to the tattoo of pneumatic drills demolishing one of the remaining walls. His desk was set in the Oval Room, where Abraham Lincoln's once stood. There he settled down to attack the great problem he had seen with his own eyes, the grim reality of Drought...