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Word: speak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finest fruit of serious learning should be the ability to speak the word God without reserve or embarassment," President Pusey told the graduating class yesterday in his annual Baccalaureate Address at Memorial Church...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey Decries Inability To Speak Easily of God | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...north. In the old days only British subjects-which automatically included everyone born in Singapore-could cast a vote. Under the new constitution voting is compulsory for all, and the ballot is thrown open to hundreds of thousands of Chinese born outside Singapore, most of whom are unable to speak English. In the new Parliament, in fact, English will cease to be the official language and members may debate in English, Malay, Mandarin Chinese or the Tamil language of India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SINGAPORE: Bold Experiment | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...published as part of the official conference record. (Refusing, the conference secretariat noted that the question was one on which there was "permanent disagreement.") And at the week's first formal session, Gromyko, who was chairman, broke an implicit promise to let Secretary of State Christian Herter speak first by unexpectedly recognizing Bolz-who promptly launched into a Gromyko-like denunciation of West German rearmament, while Herter fumbled with his spectacles ("Perhaps I was negligent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENEVA: The Glacier | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...businessmen met, the latest statistics from Washington underscored their forecasts. Gross national product was rising even faster than the preliminary estimates, reached an annual rate of $467 billion for the first quarter of 1959. More important, the gain was real: with hardly any price rise to speak of since last year, the new G.N.P. showed an 8% jump in constant dollars from the recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Picking Up Speed | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...Robert H. Socolow '59, will be in this year's group to the Soviet Union, but Gamble noted that the Experiment had consciously tried to limit the proportion of Harvard men in the group. Like most of the other members of this summer's group, Socolow is able to speak good Russian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 55 Students Will Spend Summer 'Experimenting' in Homes Abroad | 5/29/1959 | See Source »

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