Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Presbyotia. People speak just about as fast as they hear?some 20 changes a second, said Dr. J. McKeen Cattell, editor of Science. To be heard by an audience or by people hard of hearing, one must speak distinctly and slowly, not loudly. A stump speaker's shouting is only a blur of tones to his listeners. In old people, the receiving apparatus of the ear becomes less elastic than in youth; it does not respond quickly to short waves (shrill) sounds. Words or notes of music following in fast succession run together and cannot be distinguished. The condition...
...Reed's rebuttal excited the public health convention. Men shouted and gesticulated. Dr. Reed wanted to speak further. "Dr. Emerson," said he, "tried to make prohibition responsible for about everything except the frost on the pumpkin and the swallow's homeward flight." Dr. Charles Value Chapin of Providence, R. I., chairman of the meeting, ordered the discussion closed, soothed everybody...
...which is rapidly changing into a purpose. Modelled after the German universities, American colleges are breaking from the mould--tending not to an imitation of the English or any other type, but borrowing what seems good and inventing what seems better. The present generation of undergraduates is, so to speak serving as a test case in many laboratories; that the experimenters in their general purpose seem agreed, is a fact to give confidence to student and instructor alike...
...rest of the Metropolitan's "Greater Entertainment," the divertissement, so to speak, it remains rather hazily in the mind; in fact it succeeded excellently in diverting the attention from what was taking place on the stage. There guesses what...
Manley O. Hudson, Bemis Professor of International Law at the Law School, will address the Massachusetts branch of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association tonight at a dinner to be held at the Hotel Bellevue. Professor Hudson will speak on some aspect of the eighth Assembly of the League, which he attended while on his sabbatical travels last year...