Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Andrews and his colleagues have prepared for University Hall a searching and candid report on the activities and problems of the Freshman year. The Confidential Guide Committee's newest platform is characterized particularly by the tenacity of purpose which shows itself in the emphasis placed on certain recommendations made last year and about which nothing has been done...
...restraint and precision marking the report from beginning to end should do much to make the Dean's office realize the high quality of thought underlying it. The features of last year's platform, neglected by the authorities, and stressed again this year, seem to demand especially prompt action. If fresh experience and familiarity with the problems at hand count for anything, it must be said that no one could be more in the know than the Freshmen themselves. Their recommendation should carry corresponding weight when the authorities come to smooth out the out the difficulties of the first year...
During the period of the School's sitting, from July 6 to August 16, each week there will come an evening when prominent men and women gather on the lecture platform and wage an informal discussion before the audience on some national problem...
Died. A. (for Alexander) Mitchell Palmer, 64, who as President Wilson's Attorney General organized the great 1919 Red Hunt; after an appendectomy; in Washington. D. C. It was he who put into the 1932 Democratic platform planks pledging a 25% reduction in Government expenditures, collection of War Debts...
...night, and when the reporters had gone he and his wife searched the cellar for a bottle of wine, to celebrate. The cellar was empty, so they cooked sausages instead. At the presentation ceremony in Stockholm, Yeats saw with dismay that the recipients, after going down from the platform to receive their medals from the King, had to walk backwards up the steps again. Most of them sidled up, half-turned; when it came Yeats's turn he made a great effort, clambered up carefully, straight backward. "As the cheering grows much louder when I get there, I must...