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Word: speak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green winter, many deaths," sages quoted in Minnesota. No snow to speak of had fallen, and Minnesotans still watered their lawns after one of the driest Novembers in memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Driest Fall | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Thomas Mitchell as old hard-riding Gerald O'Hara, who (after his mind is gone) by sheer power of pantomime dominates the scenes in which he has almost nothing to say or do; 2) colored Cinemactress Hattie McDaniel, who comes from Kansas, had to be taught to speak thick Georgian, turns in the most finished acting job of the picture as Mammy, the sly, leather-lunged, devoted Emily Post of the O'Haras. And Vivien Leigh had not petted and pouted on the screen for five minutes before the fussy Atlanta audience was ready to underwrite Selznick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...stand against both Germany and Russia. At week's end Foreign Minister Sandier, whose head has been demanded by both countries because of his "pro-British policies," still carried his portfolio. All but 50 members walked out of the Chamber of Deputies when a Communist got up to speak. Named active commander in chief of all Sweden's armed forces was 62-year-old Lieut. General Olof Gerhard Thörnell, an expert on Europe's armies, who announced: "The defense of . . . the Fatherland puts everything else in the background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDINAVIA: Help Wanted | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Committee, which came into being as a result of protests over the refusal by Jerome D. Greene '96, Secretary to the Corporation, to allow Communist leader Earl Browder to speak at the University will act merely as an advisory body to Mr. Greene...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAFEE, SCHELSINGER AND HANFORD ON NEW COMMITTEE | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...right of student sand Faculty members to speak (and teach) freely in the classroom, on the campus, and before the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee for Academic Freedom Formed; Adopts "Bill of Rights" | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

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