Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beyond question the ability to converse in the tongue being studied is of inestimable advantage in the ultimate conquest of that nation's culture. One can not fully appreciate the literature of a people, unless one can write and speak the language of that people with some degree of proficiency, and thus realize the difficulties as well as the possibilities the language presents. Moreover, for the study of poetry, especially that of modern poets whose effects depend in a large measure on subtle cadences, an appreciation of the rhythmical and onomatopoetic peculiarities is essential...
Tonight at 7.15 o'clock Professor L. C. Porter, Exchange Professor from Yen-Ching University, will speak on "The Japanese in Manchuria Right or Wrong?" in the Junior Common Room...
...Coventry. He is the board's minority leader and auto matically a member of 13 committees. But he can introduce no measures, having no one to second them. If he rises to a point of order he will be snowed under by 64 Tammany votes. If he tries to speak anyway he can be held out of order and suspended from the chamber...
...fiscal theory and practice. Last week Money Man Kemmerer arose to make a pronouncement upon a currency which few people would ever have thought needed his attention. Yet the U. S. public as well as the Advertising Club (Manhattan), his luncheon host, seemed glad to hear Dr. Kemmerer speak as follows of the U. S. Dollar...
...Chicago one morning last week, Serafina di Leo lay abed in a clutter of flowers, telegrams and Sunday papers. A great deal had happened to her in three years. She had studied diligently in Italy, learned to speak pure Italian instead of the dialect on which she had been raised. She had sung at the Scala and in Genoa. With lips vermilion-red and finger nails to match, she returned to the U. S. this autumn to find herself good copy because she was a New Jersey laborer's daughter and at 19 had a five-year contract with...