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Word: speaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the Harvard A. I. L. has been making plans for its first membership meeting in order to outline future policy and to elect officers. Donald C. McKay, assistant professor of History, will speak at the rally to be held at 7:30 o'clock Thursday evening in Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A. I. L. CHAPTERS WILL HOLD MEETING AT FAIR | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

...Speak of the Devil (produced by the Everyman Theatre). Johann Wolfgang von Goethe must have turned in his grave last week when his immortal Faust was produced under the title Speak of the Devil. Then again, he may have been delighted it was not called Faust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Instead of helping Adolf Hitler last week by emerging as an "honest broker" to try to sell Britain and France a Nazi Peace (see p. 34), Premier Benito Mussolini left the Führer to speak exclusively for himself, plunged into strictly Italian (and peaceful) activities. Fascist newsorgans politely termed Herr Hitler's vague terms as so "constructive, realistic" that they ought to be accepted, but there was little conviction that they would be accepted, even if understood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Pick & Shovel v. Axis | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...were immediately asked a question everyone wanted answered. What ship attacked? One man, apparently a spokesman, replied with assurance: "The attacking ship came so close I could read the name Admiral von Scheer." Either his eyesight or his memory was bad: the name he had meant to speak was Admiral Scheer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Old Game | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...first of a series of five lectures presented by the Harvard Catholic Club. Thomas F. Woodlock, railroads expert, will speak on "Threats To American Liberties" at 8 o'clock tonight in Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Catholic Club Starts Lectures | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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