Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also announced last night after the Harvard-Princeton debate here that Thomas W. Stephenson '37 had won the T. Jefferson Coolidge debating prize of $100. Stephenson was the second man to speak...
...Freshman will also speak at this meeting to describe the life in the yard. The trials will be held for this Tuesday afternoon in the common room of the Union...
Many of those concentrating in the field did so because as a field Languages is easy, non-scientific, and somehow possessed of a "liberal" as well as a contemporary appeal. Others concentrated due to a simple desire to read, write, and speak French, a thing which concentrators said could easily be done but which, as far as the speaking goes, could also easily be avoided. Still others chose it because they desired the literary background which the extensive reading in French would give them. None of the concentrators, including those who entered because it was easy, declared themselves disappointed with...
...last February's general elections, President Zamora, a pious Catholic, has stayed in the unlovable middle. So outraged was he by his suspicion that his old friend Manuel Azaña, now Premier, had taken part in the Left parties' October 1934 revolt that he refused to speak to Azaña. On the other hand he was so suspicious of the Fascist tendencies of the last Right-controlled Cortes that he dissolved it last January. The Left won the ensuing elections. Last week it was the Left, intolerant of Catholic and Republican Zamora, who demanded his expulsion...
...secretary is Count Nicolas Ignatieff, son of Prince Nicolas Ignatieff, who once commanded the Tsar's Imperial Guard. When they discovered each other, the Count was a taxi driver and Promoter Dickson was his first fare. Apologizing for his incompetence as a chauffeur, the Count admitted he could speak twelve languages and take shorthand dictation. Dickson ordered him to drive home, telephone the company to call for its cab. As a sideline to being Dickson's secretary, Count Nicolas heads an organization which classifies Russian noblemen in Paris according to the genuineness of their pretensions...