Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Burleigh Grimes, 45, crack spitball pitcher of the 19205; from his second wife, Laura Virginia Grimes ; in Union, Mo. Charge: "general indignities." Died. Mrs. Charles W. Gamble ("Mollie Ticklepitcher"), 51; of cancer; in Jasper, Tenn. A tank town actress, she hoaxed Phillips Lord into letting her speak over his We, the People radio program by passing herself off as a backwoods midwife (TIME...
...have expressed not quite so well: "Fundamentally they are static, not inert or dead, but active as a tower, a pier or a buttress is active. . . . Composed not only in the usual sense of having their parts disposed in an orderly arrangement, but in the sense in which we speak of a person's 'composure.' . . ." But also, in exhaustive detail and supplemented by analyses of 81 paintings (147 are reproduced), the means by which the effect was attained, e. g., an economy which used the same brush strokes to create volumes, to set them in deep perspective...
Sawabini, an insurance salesman living in Brookline, gained the floor by sending a note to Grace which said, "My name is Victor E. Sawabini, I come from Palestine. Please let me speak." Grace said afterwards he did not know that Sawabini was an Arab when he invited him to speak. He admitted being abashed by the Arab's remark "We don't want any more Jews. Why not send them to Texas...
...Fred L. Whipple will speak on his new collisional theory of the origin of supernovae and Dr. Dorrit Hoffielt will report on current photometric studies of the supernovae in external galaxies, a research based on studies of photographs made at Harvard's three observing stations...
Youth is having other trends which speak for themselves. Students spend more for meat, fish, eggs and poultry than for any other kind of food. The trend-watchers must have thought that fact particularly significant, just as significant as the fact that Harvard University has discovered that its students are growing taller at the rate of one inch every 32 years. It things keep moving at that speed, Harvard boys will soon be men. -"The Dartmouth...