Word: reveals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only of Nazi Germany did ebullient Miss Steele have things to reveal. Wrote she to friends in Texas: "A Princess Bagnatiov - former ruler of Georgia [Russia] - called on me and gave me the lowdown on what is developing in Japan and Russia. Right now Japan has surrounded Russia and will slowly choke her to death by pressing in from all sides. She is going to give me valuable information about the situation...
...break the impasse caused by the worthlessness of this question, Oxford has proposed the resolution: "that the first function of a biographer is to reveal feet of clay." Is this bit of dilettantism the best topic two liberal universities can find to discuss before an international audience? Are Harvard and Oxford so secluded from the world, so steeped in the academic cloister, that they can find no more fundamental problem to argue? Such a triviality may serve for a literary tea, but so important an event as the Harvard-Oxford debate merits a more vital subject. Harvard and Oxford hold...
...having received the telegram sent two days ago by Frederick DcW. Bolman '35, president of the Harvard group, which suggested a split team debate on the question of censorship of the press, cabled that they would like to discuss the merits of the proposal that biography should "reveal feet of clay...
...Oxford cable reads as follows: "Impossible Oxford concede. Oxford and BBC propose "The first function of a biographer is to reveal feet of clay. Oxford wishes negative." The NBC added "We are holding up any action on your message of the thirteenth until we get your reaction to this suggestion from Oxford...
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...