Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...predicament of needing new books even while many of those they print remain unsold. As one of the few doing business outside New York's gossipy, interwoven, competitive publishing circle, Philadelphia's old-line Publisher James Lippincott was not anxious to have his writers speak at the Book Fair. He was afraid that other publishers would steal them...
...left!" His uncle-by-marriage looked startled and gave the porter only a quarter instead of fifty cents. Already the Vagabond had raced one Pullman length and accosted his cousin. "Hello," he shrieked. "Come hurry with me, your uncle is waiting on my right." Before he could speak, the Vagabond had herded him and his uncle into the automobile...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of geology, will speak informally tonight at 8 o'clock at the Boston Center for Adult Education, 79 Mount Vernon Street...
...Problems of the Planetary Nebulae" will be discussed at an astronomical symposium to be held at the Observatory at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon. Dr. J. C. Duncan, of Wellesley College, Dr. F. L. Whipple, and Mr. Lawrence Aller will speak...
...second lecture as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, Chauncey B. Tinker, Sterling Professor of English Literature at Yale, will speak on "Hogarth: The Humanitarian Movement," at the New Lecture Hall, at 8 o'clock. The general topic of Professor Tinker's lecture series is "Literary Tendencies in English Painting...