Word: speak
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...facts that show us the vastness of the world is the existence of newspapers, for they imply by their very being such complication of civilization, such intricacy of interests and so universal a diffusion of knowledge, that they seem most truly emblematic of the nineteenth century. Let the statistics speak for them. Mr. Henry Hubbard in 1882 in his "Newspaper Directory of the World," published in New Haven, gave the following table of newspapers, and their circulation throughout the world...
...LOUD.DEUTSCHER VEREIN. - Meeting tonight at 7.30 in Matthews. Mr. Thompson will speak on the "Mythical and Historical Elements of the Nibelungenlied...
...there will probably be one on "Mollusca,' by Professor E. S. Morse, of Salem; one on "Sponges," by Professor Wyett of the Institute of Technology, and one on "Worms," by Dr. Charles Minot of the Harvard Medical School. This evening Dr. Kingsley, editor of the "Standard Natural History," will speak of "Massachusetts Crustacea," illustrating the lecture by live and alcoholic specimens...
...serious trouble. The lad has been told that he is to enter college when he is eighteen and by a not too complex mathematical calculation he has figured out that this will place him in the class of 1900. He is accustomed to hear his father speak of his class as that of '75, and reasoning by analogy, he has arrived at the conclusion that his own will be the class of '00. "And, papa," he says, "of course nobody would want to belong to the class of nothing at all. Everybody would make fun of a fellow...
...PHOTO COMMITTEE.DEUTSCHER VEREIN. - Meeting this evening at 7.30 o'clock, in 20 Holworthy. Dr. Taussig will speak on "Die Deutsch Amerikaner...