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Word: speaks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...governor, Candidate Smith ordered his son-in-law, Major J. A. Warner, to send a corps of state troopers to Janesville, N. Y., to protect Senator James Thomas Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope. Just before Senator Heflin began to speak, the platform on which he and 50 others were standing crashed to the ground. Many were bruised; no one was seriously injured. The troopers kept the excited multitude of 10,000 Klansmen and "other patriots" in order. Shaken but unruffled, Senator Heflin climbed on a safe corner of the wreck and heffled for two hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Klansmen | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...privilege of Greatness is to speak in words which send common folk ascurrying to dictionaries. Lustrum is such a word. Last week His Excellency General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, Marquis de Estella, Prime Minister and Dictator of Spain announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Lustrum after Lustrum | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...friends speak of a heritage I have gotten from Cornell University. The only legacy I am certain I received from that institution of learning was the licker habit. It took me years to get over it. And, quite frankly, I could have acquired the same habit in two years at Harvard, while it took me four at Cornell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Misfit Cornell | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...clock--Phi Beta Kappa exercises in Sanders Theatre. Professor R. B. Merriman '96, Carl Sandburg, Professor Paul Shorey '78, and J. H. Ropes '89 to speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARIED ACTIVITIES FILL NEXT FOUR DAYS | 6/19/1928 | See Source »

...final major assembly for the first year men will take place in Phillips Brooks House on Monday night. At this annual event, undergraduates prominent in activities, including the presidents of the CRIMSON, Advocate and Lampoon, will speak and the Glee Club will entertain with Harvard songs. Refreshments will be served...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN WEEK IS SHORTENED ONE DAY | 6/14/1928 | See Source »

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