Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Papist!" stormed leading French news-organs of the Left last week at brilliant, bowlegged little General Max Weygand. He is as good a Roman Catholic as was his patron Marshal Ferdinand Foch who used to speak of him as "Max, my spiritual son." Last week as the climax of a long and masterly campaign of military intrigue (TIME, Jan. 13, 1930), General Weygand forced out Marshal Pétain and assumed the office which carries with it supreme command of the French Army. This office has a highly technical title: "Vice President of the Higher War Council." More imposing sounds...
...daily reports of the Stock Exchange and the Curb Market, the Wall . Street Journal and Bradstreet. ... In athletics . . . squash, tennis, golf, polo, bridge and backgammon [will be taught]. . . . But students . . . must learn to talk intimately of the characteristics of the notable players, criticize the leading coaches, and speak convincingly about . . . [other] athletics. ... At the end of the four-year course, the Bachelor of Arts degree will be deservedly awarded to each student who has successfully completed the course, providing the candidate has arranged to marry (advantageously) immediately following the award of the degree...
...Hear, o ye heavens, the things I speak; let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth...
...Harvard Geological Conference will hold a joint meeting with the Boston Geological Society this evening, at which S. F. Kelly will speak on "Geophysics as a New Tool for the Geologist." After the dinner at the Faculty Club, Kelly will lecture to the members of the conference in the Mineralogical lecture room...
Members of the great German learned society Kaiser Wilhelm Gesallschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften went to the Berlin suburb of Dahlem, walked down Faradayweg to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Silicate Research. There they heard Professor-Doktor Wilhelm Eitel, physical-chemist, director of the silicate research, speak of "one of the most sensational discoveries of the decade." They surveyed the discovery, a small metal disc which would do what scientists have been predicting and working towards for years ?make electricity out of sunlight...