Word: speak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scott journeyed to native encampments on the wild thornbush plains. He bumped over rough motor tracks, got lost in deserts, sat with chiefs and councillors and took down their words. The tribesmen deputized him to speak for them to the outside world, sold some of their cattle to pay for his trips to sessions...
...remains to show that the town was settled by Americans. Of the descendants of the original settlers, only the family of Dr. James R. Jones, a young dentist-farmer, clings to the old ways. "Doutor Jaime," his black-haired wife Judith (nee McKnight) and their two children still speak English at home; Doutor Jaime's brother, who married an Italian girl, speaks it only haltingly, "because I have no practice...
...opening process began when his board started interviewing candidates for the superintendency. Most of the candidates, he found, were "more interested in soap, towels, bathrooms, ventilation, and machines for waxing floors than they were in basic subjects." When they did speak about education, "they were all stamped out of the same die, following the doctrines and dogmas of the educators" in blind obedience. What sort of education were those dogmas leading to? Smith decided that it was high time parents found out. This week, in his "primer for parents," And Madly Teach (Henry Regnery; $2), Mortimer Smith reported what...
...addition to the Yale talks, two other teams from the Debate Council will speak tonight at a tournament of New England colleges at Tufts...
...members will be initiated at 3:30 p.m. Friday, December 9, in Agassiz House. Following the ceremony, Miss Katherine Muller '46 will speak on "Young People in Germany." Miss Muller is a member of the faculty of Shady Hill School...