Word: speak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arthur L. Goodhart, Master of University College at Oxford, and Professor Dexter Perkins of Cornell University, will speak this morning to alumni of University graduate schools...
...Roosevelt '04, candidate for governor of New York, spoke in the Union, was later swept into the Albany State House, and returned to the Yard in the spring to deliver the Phi Beta Kappa oration. Herbert Hoover was not so generous with his time; he was able to speak for only a few minutes on his way through the Square, but, in a CRIMSON-sponsored poll of the University, he was found to be the most popular candidate among Harvard men anyway...
...Western world are deeply indebted to you for your dramatic account [May 20] of Cardinal Wyszynski. It tells beautifully, in vivid realism, the story of a noble primate who is an astute statesman and diplomat as well as a great religious leader. I speak as a Protestant, in deep sympathy with the cardinal's patriotic service to his country and to all mankind as well...
Most of Elgar's works have vanished from the repertory and the minds of audiences as completely as the faraway world they echoed. But his better compositions still speak for the England of fields and hedgerows as surely as the martial pieces spoke for the fading empire...
...debate about the fallout will continue for years, with scientists contributing a minor part of the wordage. Most of them realize that the major decisions are political and moral rather than scientific. Professors George W. Beadle and Alfred Henry Sturtevant of Caltech's biology division speak for this group. They believe that bomb testing is dangerous to the world at large and should be held to a minimum, but they do not know how to balance human danger against the military advantage that may be won by testing. "We don't know what is gained by the tests...