Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subscribe to TIME; I am what you term a newsstand buyer. I read TIME from cover to cover every week, and have only one criticism to make. May I ask why, although it was announced in the leading New York and Washington newspapers (not to speak of the Long Island papers) no mention was made in TIME of the engagement of Miss Thalia Fortescue to Ensign Thomas Massie? I do not know Miss Fortescue personally, but her family is among the most prominent of the summer residents of both Bayport and Sayville, while she herself is one of the leading...
Owen D. Young, board chairman of the General Electric Co., a vast open-shop organization, did not speak in person. President Green quoted him; quoted from a speech Mr. Young once made at Harvard, when Mr. Young said: "Slowly we are learning that low wages for labor do not mean high profits for capital. What we need to know is the limits within which men may work with zest, spirit and pride of accomplishment." Just as Mr. Young's speech had originally startled old-fashioned employers, by its proximity to Labor doctrine, so did the quotation of Mr. Young...
...effect was almost electrical. The conference was, so to speak, stampeded and forthwith, almost as one man, the members rose to cry "aye" to the motion proposing that women of 21 should receive the vote. Irate Tories cursed...
...present, the 13 men retained have been divided into two squads, one to speak on the affirmative, and the other on the negative side of the question, "Resolved: That the only effective attitude towards war is an uncompromising pacifism." Both sides of the question will be investigated in this way. When the final six are chosen, they will work intensively on the affirmative side of the question, which the Harvard team is to uphold...
...Mathematical Club will hold the first of its fortnightly meetings this year in the Conant Hall Common Room at 8 o'clock on Wednesday evening. All members of the University who are interested are invited to hear Professor W. F. Osgood '86 speak on "Some Aids in the Study of Mathematics...