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Word: speaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People Speak. The Travel Expert requires a more complex ploy. Just as the expert is getting into full stride on his visit to Vladivostok, the Lifeman clears his throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Art of Lifemanship | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...very unlikely that the members of the House were unanimously in favor of H442. It is probable, as one representative has pointed out, that opponents of the measure were reluctant to speak for fear of bing branded "communist sympathizers." If this is so, it is a sad example of what the present hysteria can do to legislative bodies. The Sullivan Bill should never have been reported favorably out of committee; it should certainly never have passed the House. The Senate had better forget about the Red scare and kill this measure; otherwise, H442 may surprise everybody by being enacted into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sullivan's Statute | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

Friday night's session will be held in New Lecture Hall and is open to the public. John Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition, and Boris Goldovsky, president of the New England Opera Association, will speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Schedules Interarts Parley | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

...Henderson in Salinas at a Joint Council of Local 78, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Workers, last summer. He resembles Elsenhower, is very charming and an excellent speaker--but he does not speak for labor. After being with him in saloons and at council tables I decided he was idealistic to fanaticism and blindness, yet without honor or scruples...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rotteness in the Fresh Fruit Union | 5/5/1949 | See Source »

Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory, and several members of the Astronomy Department will speak at the meeting, which is sponsored by the amateur Bond Astronomical Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Symposium Fetes Campbell's 50th Year at College | 5/5/1949 | See Source »

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