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Word: speaks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...master-economist . . . must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher. . . . He must understand symbols and speak in words. . . . He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: They Called Him Cassandra | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

National Figure To Speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Traditional Pomp, Splendor Planned for Commencement | 4/25/1946 | See Source »

Undergraduates will have two occasions to address "the age that is past" on Tuesday. In the morning, several students will speak along with members of the Faculty, President Conant moderating, while Wilbur J. Bender '27, Counsellor for Veterans, will pick five veterans to explain to an afternoon audience at Sanders Theater "How the War Brought Me to Harvard and What I Expect to Take Away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Traditional Pomp, Splendor Planned for Commencement | 4/25/1946 | See Source »

...practices that often descend to the crassest animism, by political ignorance and by disease. Yet they have been free enough to produce great contemporary leaders and thinkers. Nobody, not even the British Raj in the days of its strength, has regimented the Indians, who wear a thousand local costumes, speak 225 languages, and follow highly individual patterns of behavior. An Indian is free to sleep on the sidewalks of Madras when he feels tired, or to declare himself a saint and sit waiting for disciples by the burning ghats of Benares; or to send out a seven-year-old child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Long Shadow | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

Said the New York Post's Film Editor Archer Winsten: "The illusion was inescapable that Ingrid Bergman . . . had learned how to speak Spanish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gift of Tongues | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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