Word: seat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went out of his whimsical way to whack the big city boys in Birmingham. He didn't have to lie down to do it, either. He simply made a suburban drug clerk president of the Jefferson County Commission, which runs the county. Birmingham is the county seat...
...boyish Clifford Evans, 27, an ex-A.A.F. pilot, and stubby, pot-bellied George Truman*, 39, a veteran flying instructor. Last summer they wangled two used Super Cruiser airframes from Piper Aircraft, engines from Lycoming, Gyrosyn compasses from Sperry and radio, equipment from Bendix. They ripped out the passenger seat behind the pilot's seat and installed 100-gallon tanks, packed in a few charts, radio spares, a can of dope (i.e., glue) for repairing the wing fabric, one good suit and a white shirt apiece. Early in August, they kissed their wives goodbye, promised to be back...
Tickets for the December concert will be good in March, although seat-holders leaving College before that time may obtain refunds...
...King and the Princess proceeded more slowly, and the King's mother, Queen Mary, slower still. She, who understood the pageant best, sat on the jump seat of her Daimler where the crowd could see her plainly...
Coolidge, a cousin of "Silent Cal," will outline Republican strategy for the coming Presidential campaign. His own record includes the presidency of the State Senate in 1945, as well as a seat in both levels of the Massachusetts General Court during his 29-year, undefeated public career...