Word: rostrums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leaning nonchalantly on the platform railing was plump, pale-eyed Stanley Baldwin, Britain's Prime Minister. While the Bishop prayed, Prime Minister Baldwin mumbled in response and read through his own speech, preoccupied, apparently oblivious to the solemnity of the occasion. Prayers over, he mounted the rostrum. Cocking his head on one side, shooting out his under jaw, he began...
...Four Years in College, is an ancient one, and used to bring out enthusiastic competition for the honor. But for the past few years there has been a reluctance of Seniors to say any more in the Commencement ceremonies than is necessary, and the invitations to the rostrum have brought a meagre response...
Thus was the public prepared for a tremendous fiscal-esthetic event. The art world whispered names that would surely stir the auction-Mellon, Bache, Widener, Ringling. Preparations were made to broadcast the epochal proceedings to the nation. When the bald auctioneer briskly mounted the rostrum, he surveyed a tight-packed attendance of more than...
According to Swigert the dropping of the Yale-Princeton meeting is not connected with the withdrawal last Friday of the Council from the Intercollegiate Debating League, and it was further stated that Harvard would meet both colleges on the rostrum...
...Council decided to abandon the aim of victory in order to have greater freedom on the rostrum. They believe that their debating methods and qualities will no longer be subordinated to the material reward of defeating their opponents...