Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowded streets the visitors drove to Yale's auditorium, Woolsey Hall, to attend the University's 233rd Commencement. While an orchestra played the overture to Die Meister singer, the President, leaning on his son's arm, marched upon the platform in black gown and took his seat among notables. One by one Yale's graduate students were given their degrees. William Lyon ("Billy") Phelps, himself unexpectedly presented with a doctorate of laws by President Angell, turned to citing the University's guests for honorary degrees. Last of all he came to Franklin Roosevelt...
...fist, tossed them on the floor. . . . Next came the preliminary to the 'works.' I may say that this consists in shoving the intended victim around with the open hand until he becomes so irritated that he strikes a police officer. . . . I permitted one hearty shove to seat me in a chair...
...Cadet Charles F. Tank." Amid polite applause the class's honor man stepped up. saluted smartly, got his diploma and a handshake, marched back to his seat. One by one other cadets marched briskly forward to answer their names. When the 249th diploma had been handed out, the last name was called: "Cadet. John B. Richardson Jr." Up went the mightiest shout of the day, rolling away down the river valley. At commencement time every U. S. school & college delights in singling out for honor the winners in its four-year race. West Point and Annapolis, however, keep from...
...profits derived from sales of bullion to the Government, and the price has hung around 45? per ounce. Side by side with climbing commodity prices this spring has been an expanding public interest in commodity speculation. Many a New York Stock Exchange house has garnered more commissions from its seat on a commodity exchange than from its Big Board membership. Eastman, Dillon & Co. lately rearranged the chairs in its Chicago office to face the commodity board instead of the stock board. Grain brokers, cotton brokers, sugar brokers, produce brokers, hope to capitalize on the fact that, so far, they have...
Following the buffet luncheon in Eliot House at high noon, the class will form for the parade at the Stadium in front of Kirkland House and from there the men will march down Boyl- ston Street, across the bridge and seat themselves on the turf of the Stadium for the Ivy Oration and the other Stadium exercises...