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Word: speak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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What was good for the country yesterday is not necessarily good for the country today . . . The people seek leaders who will speak for their ideas without compromise. They want leaders not only for the people but from the people. Robert A. Taft may have silver-spoon grandeur but Hubert H. Humphrey has dust-bowl guts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Hill Southworth, Earl Torgeson, Red Barrott, and Ray Martin will appear with McInnis when they speak before high school diamond coaches at the Boston Braves Baseball Clinic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McInnis Will Lecture To Baseball Coaches | 2/3/1949 | See Source »

After what my husband did for America, I am amazed and deeply hurt that you should publish such an article about an honorable Christian gentleman who can no longer speak for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 31, 1949 | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...Russian-Jewish chemist. For more than an hour, he listened while the young man in passionate broken English tried to explain what Zionism was all about. Finally Balfour said: "Are there many Jews who think like you?" The young man, whose name was Chaim Weizmann, replied: "I believe I speak the mind of millions of Jews whom you will never see and who cannot speak for themselves, but with whom I could pave the streets of the country I come from." Balfour looked thoughtful. "If that is so," he replied, "you will one day be a force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: With Psalms & Spades | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...first, his students understood no English and he could speak not a word of Trukese. For three weeks, teacher and pupils on the onetime Japanese island fortress of Truk groped for a way to talk to each other. Then one day a little girl blurted: "Teacher should not smoke-it does damage in the head." That was the first sign Navy Lieut. William H. O'Brian had that he was getting anywhere with his assignment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mid-Pacific School | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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