Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven debates, five of which involve trips, was announced yesterday by the Debating Council. On February 10, the radio debate with Columbia will take place, and on the seventeenth, the team will journey to Philadelphia to meet the University of Pennsylvania. Providence College will be met on its home rostrum on March...
Biggest news of the conventions was reserved for the last day of the American Economic Association meeting when Professor Rexford Guy Tugwell, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, took the rostrum, propounded a doctrine which was neither hard nor soft, liberal nor conservative, but from the standpoint of economics bright red. Said he: "We have depended too long on the hope that private ownership and control would operate somehow for the benefit of society as a whole. That hope has not been realized. . . . Private control has failed to use wisely its control of the land...
...widespread electrification may have been worthy of the New Rome, but they have not eliminated Italy's dependence on foreign markets in which to sell her products and receive supplies. Typical of many of Mussolini's brain-children, autarchy has made a better showing on paper and on the rostrum than in the drear light of economic reality. CASTOR...
...Uruguay's Legislative Palace to take refuge from the weather in its high-domed, multi-marbled and scarlet-trimmed Congressional Chamber. In the excitement the delegates of Paraguay got shunted into the spectators' gallery, failed to squirm out of the fashionable crush before President Terra took the rostrum. Their empty seats touched off pinwheels of rumor that "Paraguay has withdrawn from the Conference! She is afraid it will try to stop her war with Bolivia" (TIME, July...
...last thirty three years. At every commencement since 1899 he has donned his blue court coat with gold buttons, his white waistcoat, and top hat, and has marched in the annual June academic procession to open the ceremonies with a blow of his official sword on the rostrum and the traditional words, "The assembly will now come to order...