Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME sprinkled its salt askew. The President's vantage point was a special platform on the superstructure in front of No. 2 turret...
...would not be necessary for TIME to join the Navy in order to learn that a barbette is the stationary armored platform upon which a turret revolves, and therefore would be a most unlikely place that the President or anyone else would choose to view anything...
...Herriot's task last week to win re-election as Party Leader with nothing to offer but his traditional platform of Patience. Such a keynote can be sounded with effect only by a great orator and Edouard Herriot is of the greatest. When Orator Herriot had done with PATIENCE it glowed mellow and desired by all. Without a dissenting voice he was re-elected Leader for the fourth consecutive year by acclamation...
...Howard Fulton of Chicago: Why should the clergy waste time in seeking to advise a man on social security legislation who has ruthlessly broken his campaign promises, discarded his platform and repudiated the Constitution which he swore to protect, uphold and defend...
Such is the platform of a quarterly ($3 a year) to appear next week, published by Willett, Clark & Co., Chicago religious book house, and edited temporarily by Charles Clayton Morrison of The Christian Century, Last week Christendom had found 4,000 thoughtful, learned, serious people as paid subscribers. Press run of the first issue will be 8,000 copies. Thicker than most religious publications, Christendom is better printed, has a secular-looking red cover. Full of theology, philosophy and urbane erudition, the first issue contains a short story by Zona Gale, articles by the Archbishop of York, Philosophers William Ernest...