Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Pope needs a good elevator to his private apartment. The present elevator is a simple square platform, dangerous were it not for its slow speed and the attendants who watch it on every floor. †Marshal Pilsudski gave him the Polish order of the White Eagle, and the University of Warsaw made him an honorary doctor-because he doughtily remained in Poland during the Bolshevik Invasion...
...HOME-Ridgely Hunt & George S. Chappell-Coward-McCann ($2).* Compilers Hunt & Chappell put up a blatant front of impartiality on the Wet & Dry question. At the top of every page they reprint some moral tale or verse from some such temperance sourcebook as No Gin Today, Anecdotes from the Platform, Temperance Annual; then counter at the bottom with recipes for drinks. The scheme, more ingenious than its execution, is helped somewhat by pseudo-Victorian pseudo-engravings by Artist John Held Jr. Like all rummagings in the attic, this one recovers some rare antiques; the full version of that affecting ballad...
...City run the tracks of Chicago & Alton. Midway on the system is Wilmington, Ill., a town of 1,500. To Wilmington last week came a special train. A few minutes after its arrival, Herbert Alvin Lundahl, 48, short, pleasant, silver-haired member of the Chicago Club, mounted a special platform in the old red-brick station. As special I master-in-chancery, he droned through a long description of all the Chicago & Alton's property, from stations to lanterns. "What am I bid?" he asked after a description of each of the five lots into which the property was divided...
...canvass of 2,036 U. S. newspapers revealed 1,357 in favor of the World Court. ¶ Early one morning Mrs. Hoover motored down to the Union Station, hid herself behind the concourse grill while Boris, the President's valet, went through the gate and down the platform. A long Pullman train pulled in. Off hopped a little girl and boy in fur-trimmed blue coats. Behind them came their mother and a nurse carrying their baby sister. Boris took each child by the hand, led them dancing and prancing back to the gate. There they spied Mrs. Hoover...
...wider knowledge of the subject, more often led to confusion. The section men were generally well-grounded in their subject, but more interested in their own research than in the course, and took little pains to correlate their own knowledge and ideas with the material presented from the lecture platform or in the reading. It is conceivable that smaller sections would have enabled the individual students to get whatever problems bothered them from their reading or lectures straightened out satisfactorily...