Word: seat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seat of Learning. In Lynchburg, Va., when a radio station suggested a Junior Town Meeting of the Air for students, the school board opposed it because controversial subjects might be discussed...
Labor entered the fray with a proud record: not a single parliamentary seat lost in 46 by-elections since it came to power in 1945. To fill the seat left vacant when Hammersmith's Laborite W. T. Adams died last January, Labor had picked a 33-year-old ex-R.A.F. chaplain and Oxford don named Tom Williams. Tom's father was a Welsh miner who came home permanently crippled from World War I. His mother died when he was three. By scholarships and hard work, Tom fought his way through the Universities of Wales and Oxford, picking...
...costs down somehow. Last week, he announced a $2,088 utility car, $136 cheaper than other K-F cars (it has no chrome and fewer frills). The utility car is a combination car and truck which K-F hopes to sell to small tradesmen, farmers and sportsmen. The rear seat folds into the floor and there is a station-wagonlike gate in the back...
During a recess, Eccles stopped by Giannini's seat and extended his hand. "Nothing personal intended, you know," he began. A.P. blazed: "You're trying to put the Bank of America out of business and you can't do it. None of your gang...
Fighter pilots of the future may take their flying lying down. This week Wright Field's Aero-Medical Laboratory told about a "prone position pilot bed" that it is developing to replace the conventional pilot's seat...