Word: platform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From the Speaker's platform of the House of Representatives, President Coolidge delivered a birthday eulogy of George Washington. He did not flay the modern biographers. Efficiency, said he, was the watchword of Washington's greatness. An inconspicuous radio microphone started President Coolidge's methodical voice on its way throughout the U. S. and to Europe...
...Paris, one Gaston Orpholan, billiardist, climbed to the second platform of the Eiffel Tower and shouted at the city that his wife would not let him play billiards. Therefore he was going to jump to his death. For five hours policemen begged him not to do so; he demanded that his wife come. She did. Then he jumped...
...honor, for incoming editorial boards to announce the arrival of a new era--one which, the young hopefuls are fond of asserting, bears close resemblancme to the millenium. The Yale Daily News, however, declares that it is abandoning this egotistic bombast: the new board offers no "elaborate platform"; conservatism will be the watchword, and the new editors will not rashly discard the traditions...
...news, we are devoting our best energy not to discovering the University's shortcomings and seeking to solve its problems but to making the paper more readable and more efficient in covering its field. With this aim it seemed expedient to depart from the custom of publishing an elaborate platform...
Principal Frank L. Morse of Harrison Technical High School, Chicago, took his seat on the platform for graduating exercises last week with the air of a man who has just asserted himself. He eyed the graduating class with satisfaction. There was no pupil there who did not belong. Principal Morse faced the gathering of parents and friends, and prepared to begin the ceremonies...