Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Word. In Banff, Alta., the Canadian Medical Convention heard Dr. W. J. Deadman speak on "Sudden Death...
...hotly disputed question of whether expert delegates to the commissions should be able to speak for themselves instead of their governments, Russia last week was working both sides of the street. Eleanor Roosevelt had held out for experts who could freely give their own views. Russian Delegate Nikolai I. Feonov disagreed, said that only if delegates are "representatives of their governments can useful work be done," otherwise the commissions would be mere "discussion clubs." Russia carried the point; by a vote of11-to-5 Ecosoc decided that members of all council commissions should sit as government representatives...
...painfully shy, introsoective, and so slow in learning to speak that his parents feared he was subnormal. At school he was a poor student. But he learned to improvise on the piano, and used to make up religious songs which he would hum in his own room where no one could hear...
...Harvard Liberal Union will hold its first open meeting of the summer term Thursday when it gathers in the Lowell House Common Room at 8 o'clock. George Markham, Massachusetts director of the CIO-PAC, will speak on the much-disputed question...
...Alconleigh, because Lord Alconleigh declined all invitations ("perfectly good food at home," he always said). But every few years he took his daughters to the House of Lords, and left them in the gallery while he retired to a back bench for a snooze. Once, he awoke-to speak against admitting peeresses to the House, his objection being that the ladies would try to use the lords' washroom. "It's what they all thought, you know," said daughter Linda, "but he was the only one who dared...