Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...values, that is lacking here. The American student does not want to become educated except as that result may be effected through a process in which he plays a purely passive part. A German, for instance, is surprised to find that his American friend has passed up opportunities to speak German with acquaintances at home who are fluent in the language. The American attempts, on the other hand, to learn German or French through mere exposure to a series of courses in them. When at the end of several years he is still a wretched linguist, he blames the methods...
Frederick S. Snyder, chief of several United States food administration board divisions during the World War, and an ex-president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, will speak...
Alarmed, peppery little Senator Carter Glass of Virginia sent a telegram to Manhattan. Reassuring, lively little Chairman John J. Raskob of the Democracy telegraphed back: "The story of Jack Johnson being authorized to speak on behalf of the Democratic National Committee is cheap Republican propaganda. Johnson has no connection with this committee in any capacity...
...board were four tons of campaign literature, a reference library. 43 newspapermen, eight photographers and a group of the Nominee's best friends and advisers. He was bound, via Chicago, for Omaha to speak out on farm relief. He was going into nine states, carefully selected on the basis of their presidential vote in 1924. It was a dash and a drive to capture Kansas and Colorado which Calvin Coolidge carried by large majorities; Minnesota and Wyoming, which Calvin Coolidge carried by small majorities; Montana, North Dakota and Nebraska, which Calvin Coolidge carried with fewer votes than Democrat Davis...
With brazen clatter a telegraph machine spat news of speed and Death, last week, into the dignified Roman sanctum of Editor Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre. The Count publishes L'Osservatore Romano, the sole daily newsorgan permitted to speak for the Vatican...