Word: desk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metropolitan directors gave a silver tray with a set of resolutions. Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath was more practical. His gift: a bust of Mr. Gatti to be placed in the Metropolitan. Gatti asked only for the name plates from his box and office doors, for the secret desk panel in which he used to hide his seasons' plans...
...morning in 1775 young Harrison Gray Otis, famed nephew of famed Patriot James Otis, found his way to school blocked by a column of British troops in marching order, ready to start for Lexington. Student Otis got to his desk just in time to hear Master Lovell, with vast relief, tell his unruly pupils: "War's begun and school's done. Deponite libros*." There was no more school until General Washington's guns blasted the British out of Boston...
...Waltham desk clock, yellow gold, in brown leather case...
...limousine containing a white-whiskered gentleman drove up to the White House, and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes went in to share a tray lunch on the desk of President Roosevelt. While they gravely munched their meal, they gave their attention to fulfilling the last wishes of a man they both admired: the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes who left half of his $550,000 estate as a gift to the U. S. Question was whether the gift should merely be dumped into the General Fund of the Treasury or set aside for some special purpose. Music lovers were suggesting...
...professor in the Ukraine invented an electric eye to enable the blind to read ordinary books. A photoelectric cell scans the letters, converts them into electric impulses which make a specially constructed desk vibrate. The sightless reader is expected to put his fingertips on the desk, translate the vibrations...