Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have just read "Involuntary Motherhood in TIME, Oct. 22, and I am wondering how many of its readers will agree with me in my contention that the judges and physicians who refused to make an abortion possible for this little girl are as guilty of ruining her life as the man who raped her and should receive the same punishment...
...express the opinion that it is impracticable and undesirable for university "authorities" to "stand by" students who collide with the police while exercising their right of free speech and public assembly, and you imply that I hold a contrary opinion. It is evident you did not read my remarks, as published, with your usual discernment. I did not say that university "authorities" should intervene in public trials of student agitators, accused of disorderly conduct, rioting, etc. On the contrary, I argued against such intervention by the "authorities." What I did advocate was, that liberal-minded professors, such as the members...
Each man is to speak for two and one-half minutes. During the first minute, he will read a carefully contrived phonetic test including many of the important combinations of sounds commonly used by phoneticians to reveal variations in speech and will complete the period with an impromptu talk in the freest and easiest natural manner, so that his characteristic tonal quality, intonation and inflection may be observed. Included with each record will be an index card to be filled out with information concerning the influences to which he has been subjected, both hereditary and environmental, as well...
...purpose was, in fact it was the organ of a certain specialized literary school, primarily interested in imitating and analyzing that small and misty corner of the literary world occupied by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Company. Now this is a perfectly legitimate undertaking, if anyone wants to read a magazine published along such lines. But Mr. Wade is hardly in a position to get annoyed when some of the rest of us grow a little restless on his own favorite diet. He has chosen to edit one kind of magazine; we have chosen to edit another...
...trouble. The Federal Board took its cues from the State but the final decision on the status of any lot of oil actually rested on a bulldogged, stone-steady gentleman named Captain E. N. Stanley. He was the Railroad Commission's chief enforcement officer. After an application was read, the Board would turn for advice to Captain Stanley, who passed about one in seven. Notorious hot-oil runners-and he knew them all-he cheerfully referred to as ''regular customers...