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Word: speakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Filippini agreed to present the petition prior to the meeting when Dean Fox told the ad hoc committee the representative they had chosen, David King '81, a member of the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), could not speak to the Faculty without being in violation of the Faculty's rules...

Author: By Peter R.mason, | Title: Ad Hoc Core Committee Upset Over Petition Misrepresentation | 4/13/1978 | See Source »

...Bach Mai hospital, located in Hanoi, was destroyed by American bombs in December 1972. Part of the hospital's function was to teach people deafened by bomb concussions to speak again. A Pentagon spokesman said at the time that there might have been "accidental, limited damage...if indeed there is such a hospital...

Author: By Dan Swanson, | Title: Answers | 4/12/1978 | See Source »

...reminded of the observation that the attempt to have a religion that is no religion in particular is like trying to speak a language that is no language in particular. Polydoxy is warmed-over Deism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 10, 1978 | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...teardrop ring to show that she is engaged, but her fiance is not making this trip. Stacy and her mother set out on the 45-minute subway ride from their home to the Eastern Women's Center clinic on Manhattan's East 60th Street. They do not speak to each other on the crowded train. That whole week, for that matter, they have spoken little about the abortion. "I figured she was upset or something and she didn't want to scare me," Stacy says later of her mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Stacy's Day at the Abortion Clinic | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Like many patriarchs, Meyer Guggenheim loved to speak to his family in maxims. One was: "Roasted pigeons do not fly into one's mouth." Another required a little elaboration. Pulling out a bundle of seven sticks, one representing each son, he asked each to break it. When none could, Meyer pressed his point: "Together you are invincible. Singly, each of you may be easily broken. Stay together, my sons, and the world will be yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gaggle of Googs | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

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