Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this squad there were at various times some seventy men who were benefited in a way they never have been before. I am sure I speak for all of them I thank you and the class team coaches for your excellent management of this scheme, and ask for its extension at least a week later next year...
...view of this opinion it is interesting to not some recent experiments of Dr. F. H. Vizetelly, editor of the New Standard Dictionary, who has speak considerable time in compiling statistics of the vocabularies of persons in different walks of life. A high school freshman, according to him, under stands 66,650 words, a 4-year-old child, 1700, and a university senior 94.05 Sophomores have a speaking acquaintance with 70,000 words. An intelligent dog is reputed to know 12 words...
...Phillips Brooks House Student Lecture Bureau, inaugurated last spring to answer the constant demand for undergraduate members of the University to speak at schools, churches and junior athletic meetings, has proved itself a pronounced success...
...football team and social service workers are in especial demand as orators for New England gatherings, according to a statement yesterday by officials of the Phillips Brooks House. W. N. Bump '28, Chairman of the Bureau, receives daily five or six communications asking for Harvard men to speak on various topics at local meetings. Many of these letters come from districts as far removed as Maine and Vermont and enclose train fare for the itinerant elocutionist...
...French Renaissance architecture, is dec orated in ivory, rose-red and turquoise blue. Some 38 years ago, the Atlantic washed onto the shores of the U. S. an entirely insignificant underfed boy of 16. In those days, immigrants were not taken so seriously. No one cared whether he could speak English, knew the articles of the Constitution, how much money he carried on his person. Since that time, people have troubled to inquire. But there are no records of Adolph Zukor, immigrant, and Adolph Zukor himself can not remember distinctly whether he landed with $40 in his pocket...