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Word: speaks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indeed an ill wind that blows nobody good. Perhaps in referring to the recent flood in London, it would be more appropriate to speak of the tide rather than of the wind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ILL TIDE | 1/12/1928 | See Source »

...Moors '83, a member of Moors and Talbot, brokers in Boston, and also a Fellow of the University, will speak on "Various Topics Concerned with Social Service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Social Service Workers to Dine | 1/11/1928 | See Source »

That an undergraduate publication is qualified to speak with authority on the finer points of ethics in journalism is obviously open to doubt. Where, however, the issue is a more flagrant violation of a professional code than the worst advertisements of a medico, there seems no reason why any newspaper should be constrained to silence. The issue at point, while involving a tabloid paper in its local manifestation, is not to be classed with the usual frivolities of those publications; in brief, it concerns the statement, with no indication of doubt or other qualification, that a woman under sentence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSIONAL ETHICS | 1/10/1928 | See Source »

...enforcement, he said. "I speak only the truth when I say that the people of any locality get the degree of law enforcement upon which they insist and for which they are willing to pay. . . ." He said he was and would be willing to "remove from office upon proper proof being presented, any public official charged with laxity in enforcement of the law." But he repeated: "Law enforcement must of necessity begin with arrest. Too many misinformed people look for detailed enforcement from the head rather than from the root of police power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Smith to the U. S. | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...from all parts of the U. S., next visited the headquarters of the Communist party where they heard Harry W. Wicks, an editor of The Daily Worker making a speech. First he assailed preachers for their failure to take an active interest in labor problems; then he began to speak about famed clergyman John Roach Straton: "He is the most palpable ignoramus in the U. S.!" said H. W. Wycks. Then he added, "Fortunately, there are not many like him." The 40 ministers said, "Thank God for that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 40 Preachers | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

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