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Word: speak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like thousands of my countrymen, about to leave "this demiparadise" for Canada, but I feel this would not be necessary if England would climb down from its already tottering pedestal and accept a little more of the good old American "know-how." May I now speak on behalf of many Britons when I say "Thank God for America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1957 | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...topmost Brahmin around WGBH, is Ralph ("Mr. Boston") Lowell, the institute's sole trustee and perhaps the only banker who owns a show-business achievement award from Variety. Now that his operation is functioning smoothly, Benefactor Lowell finds it possible to report that through WBGH the Lowells now speak not only to the Cabots but to some thousands of Bostonians a day as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Boston Beacon | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...Buddha that reached their peak in the 4th-to-5th centuries, or later in the undulating figures that encrust the great Hindu temple buildings of the null centuries. One such temple figure, Worshiping Goddess, although now defaced and devoid of some of its multiple arms and symbols, would still speak to the devout. Her ample breasts and hips hark back to primitive man's fertility figures; her divine power is shown by her effortless grace as she sways in the dance, oldest Indian image of the gods and nature in its creative aspect. The goddess indicates by her overlong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: SCULPTURE OF INDIA | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Professor Reinhold Niebuhr of New York's Union Theological Seminary will speak on "Meaning and Mystery" at services in Memorial Church tomorrow at 11 a.m. Amplifying equipment has been installed so that the noted theologian may be clearly heard thoughout the Church...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Niebuhr to Preach | 3/16/1957 | See Source »

...indignation aroused by the ban on Gates, editor of the Daily Worker, was further heightened by his receiving and accepting three bids to speak before student groups at Columbia University. The Columbia administration, unlike the presidents of the City, Hunter, Queens, Brooklyn, and the Staten Island Community Colleges, has not cancelled Gates' invitations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: N.Y. College Students Condemn Speech Ban Against Red Editor | 3/15/1957 | See Source »

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