Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...editorial writer in the Crimson who compares the coached debater to a chess player performing the mechanical act of moving the pieces while an expert behind his back plans the moves for him, can hardly imagine that a professor stands on the platform behind the debater, whispering in his ear, though his words would seem to imply some such belief. If the part of the chess expert were limited to improving his pupil's play before the match the comparison would be less infelicitous...
...that no matter how high an ideal his readers have formed of him, they will not be disappointed when they see or hear him. Besides the qualities of thought and expression, the wisdom, the wit, the pathos and the power which characterize his writings, he brings to the platform the added attractions of a fine presence and strong personal magnetism...
...that no matter how high an ideal his readers have formed of him, they will not be disappointed when they see or hear him. Besides the qualities of thought and expression, the wisdom, the wit, the pathos and the power which characterize his writings, he brings to the platform the added attractions of a fine presence and strong personal magnetism...
...thoroughly intelligent and statesmanlike way. When he laid down his office he felt assured of a stronger hold upon the people of the commonwealth than when he assumed his duties. One of the newspapers most bitterly opposed to him said: "The name of William E. Russell is a platform in itself...
...distinct danger today of a disintegrated central government. (x) The Alteld version of State Rights would cripple the President. (Pub. Opin. XVII, 331, and Forum XVIII, 11-12. (y) This doctrine has been used to screen mobs, (Pub. Opin., XVII, 331. (z) It has been incorporated in the Popocratic platform...