Word: platform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Office ("Judiciary Square") a crowd gathered, and in the Plaza San Martin at Buenos Aires, another crowd. Each crowd looked up to a great equestrian statue and saw just what the other crowd saw, the same horse, the same man. The crowd at Buenos Aires then looked to a platform and saw President Alvear and Ambassador Peter Augustus Jay; and the crowd at Washington saw President Coolidge and Ambassador Honorio Pueyrredon. Before the crowd and before the replica of the statue of Jose de San Martin, liberator of Argentina, Mr. Coolidge exclaimed...
...hoped that Sanford Bates, Commissioner of Prisons in Massachusetts, would be able to meet the famous reformer on the platform, but he declined as he was forced to leave for Jackson, Miss., yesterday...
...This team that you see here," continued the Princeton lender, pointing to the men with him on the platform, "will see to it that...
When the team that has been picked to face Princeton files on to the platform in the Living Room of the Union at 7.15 o'clock tonight, 1500 students are expected to rock the building with their cheers for the University eleven. The first mass meeting of the year is expected to find the Harvard student body behind its team, undiscouraged by the fact that the Crimson is regarded as the underdog. A year ago Princeton filled that role and what Princeton did to Harvard will not soon be forgotten. Memories of that contest will evoke the spirit of revenge...
...second place, what a student sees of scholarship in some of those who claim to represent its glories is more likely to repel than attract him. The grind sitting at his elbow and the pedant standing on the lecture platform are poor ambassadors to the student from that wondrous Republic of Intellect whose advantages are so often talked about, but so rarely demonstrated. The normal student wants to become a well-rounded man. In the grind he sees an impotent and grotesque shadow of a man, and in the pedant, the father of the grind...