Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever it is, it is built of wood, with a central brass frame, and lots of cells, plates, switches, etc. The patient is supposed to sit in a small wooden seat and hanging over him is an imposing helmet replete with four coil-enclosed plates...
Sick & tired of J. Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin's threats to contest the election which dropped him out of his comfortable U. S. Senate seat in 1930, an Alabama legislator named Coates rose in Montgomery in 1931, declared: "No man in Alabama during the last quarter of a century has received greater gifts within the range of the electorate of this State than has J. Thomas Heflin...
...elected Deputies, only 188 attended. Anarchists and Trotskyite Communists staying away. After a series of emotional speeches the Cortes voted unanimous confidence in the Negrin Government and adjourned for the day. Two facts were important. Into the hall to take his seat stepped 75-year-old Manuel Portela Valladares, Premier of Spain in 1936 when the Popular Front took power, and politically about as Red as U. S. Senator Carter Glass. Since the beginning of the war he has been a voluntary exile in Paris. Last week he promised allegiance to the Negrin Government, brought three other conservative Deputies with...
...Opie Read was a guest. He made a speech to 400 people, broadcast over station WJJD. Said he, "Al Dunlap and I were in the same compartment on a train traveling from Stratford-on-Avon to London. Across the aisle sat a very thoughtful-looking Englishman, and in the seat opposite was an American. The American had been talking about the different trees he saw. 'You seem to be very well acquainted with timber,' said the Englishman. 'Yes, I was brought up among them,' replied the American. 'Ah, now that big tree over there...
Assuming the mantle of leadership with the perspective gained from a term of distinguished service to Harvard University, the new president falls heir to a program already nursed through a trying period of growing pains. He steps into the driver's seat of an assembled machine which needs only careful guiding and attentive care. As a prominent undergraduate, alumnus, and trustee, Dr. Baxter's traditions are those of Williams. He and Williams should make an excellent match. --The Williams Record...