Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ladybugs v. Greenbugs. Officially the crop was forecast at 830,636,000 bushels, better by 7,459,000 bushels than last year's bumper yield, higher by 5,000,000 bushels than the previous record crop of 1931. But Department of Agriculture men-not to speak of the always apprehensive farmers-had their fingers crossed. Drought, a heavy hailstorm, prolonged cold could seriously cut the crop. Mid-continent farmers who had escaped the blight of greenbugs that had ruined large acreages in Oklahoma and Texas now prayed for warm days that would bring out the brown-specked ladybugs...
Provost Buck and Dean Hanford will speak Tuesday at 12 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall at a meeting scheduled for a discussion of students choice of a field of concentration...
Under direction of Lamont University Professor Sumner H. Slichter, the course centers around seminars and classes conducted by Benjamin M. Selekman, Kirstein Professor of Labor Relations; John Dunlop, associate professor of Economics; and others. Included are numerous luncheon and dinner meetings, at which prominent labor and management leaders speak. Each Fellow also submits an extended report on a problem of union policy, on which he has done research while in the course...
...Elson's only assistant at U.N. in The Bronx is Visson-but he has a very important function. Russian-born and a onetime European journalist, he has the job of seeing that we get the full drama and feel of the meeting. You have to hear the delegates speak and know what they are saying in their own tongues to catch the full flavor and sharpness of the debate. It also helps to be able to talk to them between sessions in their own languages...
...wooden swords). It has also canceled history, geography and ethics courses, because the texts were deeply Shinto-stained. The educators recommended a new kind of civics training-emphasizing "heroes of civil life," and stressing that "politics is an honor, not a disgrace." Teachers would be given security to think, speak and act freely...