Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate met publicly to do its highest duty. The gallery was packed for this rare and dramatic moment in constitutional history. Eighty-four Senators were in their seats. Vice President Garner had stepped aside to let Senator Pittman preside. Three empty black leather chairs stood in a row below the dais on the Republican side of the Chamber; Representative Hobbs and his fellow-prosecutors felt it more fitting to be absent when the Senate vote was taken. Three more black leather chairs stood on the Democratic side. The centre one was occupied by small, aging Judge Ritter. his arms folded...
...American League, the New York Giants led the National League and the only team which had accurately justified expectations was the Philadelphia Athletics. Generally considered the feeblest collection of players ever assembled by a major-league club, the Athletics started by losing four games in a row, the first two to the Boston Red Sox, most expensive team in baseball history, built from the backbone of Philadelphia's last pennant winner...
...molecular behavior under a bombardment of radio waves. If some stimulus discharged the positive tension at one end, the negative charge would redistribute itself, affecting other molecules. If these molecules twitched in response to the charge, their movements would generate a current affecting still other molecules. Thus, like a row of falling dominoes, the molecules in the nerve tissue might electrically hand on an impulse from beginning to end of the nerve arc. "Clarification of these effects removes an important barrier to the . . . intelligent treatment of nervous disorders...
...Ushers in white waiters' jackets gave front-row spectators bed sheets to spread across their knees...
Last week the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra was still without a general musical director to succeed Arturo Toscanini, who retires after this season. The Orchestra's first choice, Wilhelm Furtwängler, declined after liberals and Jews who suspect him of Nazi sympathies had raised a row (TIME, March 9 & 23). The second choice, whose name was revealed last week, would have been eminently satisfactory to anti-Nazis. Fritz Busch, onetime director of the Dresden Opera, lost his job in 1933 because of his liberal leanings. A onetime guest conductor in Manhattan...