Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Abbott is perfectly comfortable, perfectly at home on the lecture platform. He seats himself in a swivel chair, places his notes and his elbows on the desk, gives vent to a sigh, perhaps even a puff, and begins. Fifteen minutes contain a dignified, non-irritating drone, dedicated to the fact that Gladstone had gained a reputation as a great minister of finance. Then there may be an interruption. The professor will rub his eyes. He will give assurances that the following story is amusing. The story will consume five minutes. There will be renewed assurances that the story...
...understood that there is no vitally important issue under consideration in the election. Mayor Russell is running on the "Good Government" platform which his opponents have attacked from many angles. The issue of high taxes that dominated the last election no longer is held to be of great importance because the Russell Administration has reduced the tax burden upon the people to an appreciable amount...
Accompanied by his wife and Cinemactress Marie Dressier, who was spending the weekend at the White House, the President reached the speakers' platform below which sat delegates to the A. F. of L.'s 53rd convention (see p. 11). He began by recalling that "In the year 1911 -only 22 years ago-Samuel Gompers, Robert F. Wagner, Alfred E. Smith and I were labeled as radicals when we fought for and finally succeeded in passing a bill through the New York State Legislature limiting the work of women in industry to 54 hours a week...
...following is quoted verbatim from the Crimson of Wednesday, October 6, 1909 on the occasion of President-emeritus Lowell's Inauguration. The entire ceremony lasted for three days and the installation took place on a platform erected in front of University Hall...
...purpose of adding to the beauty of said city, which I have always loved." Architect Arthur Brown Jr., designer of San Francisco's City Hall, designed a monumental lighthouse, a fluted column rising from a severely simple base, its apex pierced with galleries for an observation platform. From its tip will blaze a flame that no fireman can quench, fed by city...