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Word: speak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, will preside at the morning session. Dr. Donald H. Mensal will speak on "Problems of the Solar Atmosphere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Astronomers Will Preside At Scientists' Symposium | 2/15/1939 | See Source »

...does not appear. Not satirizing but seriously analyzing the shortcomings of the Oxford Group, author-director Rachel Crothers has let her characters speak flippantly of God without allowing her play to be in any way flippant. The play rails at houseparties, confessions, dowagers, the substitution of "spiritual" for "physical" love and the superficiality which often characterizes the Group. But at its objective attempts to smooth out human relations Miss Crothers does not laugh she merely disagrees...

Author: By C. L. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 2/14/1939 | See Source »

Emma Eames (pronounced Ames), great soprano of the "golden age of opera," still handsome at 73, emerged from 30 years' retirement to speak over the radio in Manhattan and broadcast records of her once-golden voice. Said Veteran Eames: "I used to work terribly hard, now work bores me to death. I live entirely for pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Tennessee State Legislature, State Senator Lem Motlow, long vexed by tobacco auctioneers' gabble-gobble, introduced a bill requiring every Tennessee auctioneer "to speak distinctly and slowly enough so that he may be understood by the average citizen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...rally tonight in Emerson D at 7:30 o'clock sponsored by the Student Union and the Cambridge Teachers Union in the interest of raising the arms embargo on Spain, Lewis Mumford, noted author, sociologist, and critic, and Report Emerson '31, associate professor of Government, will speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPAIN RALLY TONIGHT STARS LEWIS MUMFORD | 2/9/1939 | See Source »

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