Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This afternoon Professor Selig Brodersky, of the University of Leeds, England, will speak on "Sir Isaac Newton." The lecture will be delivered at 4.30 o'clock in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum...
...heard many tales from my Indians of a race called the Pogsa, which means animal people," stated Dr. McGovern to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "We managed to catch some of them, a most peculiar job. they speak a language which is a combination of clicks, clucks, and gutteral explosious. Their language caused us the most trouble. We would often use nine or ten interpreters to translate the language for us, one passing the story on to the next man, till it finally reached me, after being transferred from dialect to dialect...
...Harvard football team, or any other, has nothing on me when it comes to training," remarked Marilyn Miller, peerless queen of musical comedy, last night to a CRIMSON reporter when he had sufficiently mastered the situation to ask her to speak of herself and the secret of her remarkable success on the stage. Miss Miller begins a long run at the Colonial Theatre in Boston Tuesday night in Charles Dillingham's musical comedy production "Sunny", in which she starred for 15 months in New York...
When she attempted to leave Russia, however, the frontier officials insisted that she was a Russian, despite her U. S. passport and the fact that she could not speak Russian. Acting with this assertion as their excuse they took from her: 1) letters of credit aggregating $3,000; 2) all her "undecipherable" papers and notes in English. Mrs. Flanagan was then allowed to proceed, reached Reval, applied to the local Soviet consul, and secured through him the return of her papers. He explained that the local frontier officials had exceeded their authority, patriotically supposing that "nobody ought to be allowed...
...commission between Manhattan and London (3,500 miles) over a combination of land lines and wireless waves. The cost will be $25 a minute, with a refund in case static blurs the conversation. Since transatlantic cable rates are 22c a word, this means that the person who can distinctly speak more than 115 words a minute will save money by the new way. But he must talk with a low, steady tone, else his voice will be blurred when carried across the chain of hair-adjusted transmitting machines. Trained elocutionists might be hired to do the telephoning. President Coolidge...