Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forum is the next to the last in the series which the club has sponsored this term. Next Tuesday, Edward P. Wyeth, a Boston stockbroker, will speak on "The Stock Exchange and the Small Investor." into policy-making panels...
...small fry, accustomed to an austere four ounces of sweets a week, began to speak expertly of such popular British candies as "hundreds & thousands," "bull's-eyes," "gobstoppers," "English humbugs." Six-year-old Jane Merrill gave some definitions: "'Gobstoppers' are soft and big and when there's one in your mouth it's so full you don't do anything but sputter. 'Hundreds & thousands' are called that because there are so many of them and they are measured out in a cup. They come in colors and I like pink...
...that most people tend to retain what they see more readily than what they hear. Television, which demands closer visual attention than the ordinary, unselected sights of everyday life, closer even than movies, may exaggerate this tendency. The TV audience had not seen the locksmith, but had heard him speak several times during the play. Yet, reasons CBS, the audience was looking so hard that it forgot to listen, and could not place the murderer's voice. Later that night CBS was forced to telecast a "news bulletin" announcing the identity of the killer...
After the physical trial the whole College roped into the Welesley Chapel to hear President Mildred McAfee Horton speak on "woman's role in this revolution." Mrs. Horton is on the bard of directors of Kobe College, located in strategic Japan...
This fragment was presented to us be an ancient oriental, an habitue of the ovals, so to speak, who claims descent from Confucius, and who has shown remarkable prowess of late at Lincoin Downs. We quote in part...