Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...symphonic level, is credited with doing as much as any man could to make Britons music-minded. Said the London Times last fortnight by way of tribute: "He met wars with dogged persistence, changes of taste with a willing compliance. . . . We set our watches by his arrival on the rostrum...
...morning meeting was opened by the High Sheriff of Middlesex County, Joseph M. McElroy, who rapped on the rostrum three times with his scabbard. Then President Conant was seated in the incident Tudor Chair, and the Commencement Parts, including the Latin Oration, were delivered...
...inauguration last week of Juan Antonio Ríos Morales as 22nd President of the Republic of Chile was simple and democratic. Entering the Honor Hall of Parliament as a private citizen, he advanced to the rostrum, took an oath to respect the Constitution, donned the red, white & blue sash-of-office which retiring Vice President Gerónimo Méndez doffed. As "Don Anónimo" Méndez walked out, Don Juan Antonio briefly announced his Cabinet and policy. Both reflected the man, as the man mirrored the epoch...
...Haven the same evening Harvard will take the affirmative with William C. Murphy '42, Thomas J. O'Toole '42, and Payson Wolff '42 taking the rostrum. The chairman of the debate is Eward Rowe, ex-coach of the Harvard Debating Council...
...planned intervals during the hour? But even should these achievements be equalled, Vag reflected with mixed pleasure and regret, no one but the taskmaster-emeritus of History 1 could inspire, and graciously accept, the gift of a highly-polished apple which one ardent admirer had brought up to the rostrum at the climax of a lecture on the feudal system...