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Word: speak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mikhail A. Menshikov, Russian Ambassador to the United States, has accepted an invitation from the Harvard United Nations Council to speak here next Fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Russian Agrees To Speak Here | 5/28/1958 | See Source »

Piston praised the selection of Chavez as Norton lecturer. "It is a fine thing to have him to speak here on himself and on Mexican music. He is surely the outstanding composer in Mexico today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Composer Carlos Chavez Appointed To Charles Eliot Norton Lectureship | 5/28/1958 | See Source »

...them all. none was more practiced than Charles de Gaulle in la tactique du silence. "Why speak," he had often confided, "if only to pronounce words without a tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: I Am Ready | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...whom Chekhov is as familiar as Shaw or Sheridan, seemed to approve. The first-night audiences -including such personages as Defense Minister Duncan Sandys and Lady Churchill -gave the group nine curtain calls. And one sack-clad miss added the awed, ultimate compliment: "You don't need to speak Russian to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Methodical Orchard | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

Capp cites an occasion when he and fellow cartoonist Walt Kelly were invited to speak to the Harvard New Delhi Society." They were "horrified...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: The University Life of Abner Yokum | 5/21/1958 | See Source »

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