Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patterson, president of the United Air Lines, will speak at the graduation exercises of the Business School's Advance Management Program to be held tomorrow at 9:30 o'clock in the Baker Library...
Little Laski came last week to New York to speak on "The Challenge of the Atomic Bomb." It was a time and a topic that pressed humility upon the brows of larger men, searching their hearts to root out the seeds of conflict with their fellows. Harold Laski was troubled by no doubts. Tinnily, his arrogant challenge rang through the Astor Hotel's crowded ballroom...
Said he: "I find it difficult to speak to you . . . since I've never been able to figure out your purpose as an organization. ... I can't remember a single thing you've been for [or] a single con tribution the organization itself has made or a single constructive thing it's done. . . . The N.A.M. has such a bad name . . . that even when it's right about some thing it can't draw public support to it. Even when a man gets mad at the unions he doesn't side with N.A.M...
...coincide with the birthday of A. Lawrence Lowell, President of the University from 1909 to 1933, which fell on December 13. Before his death in 1943, the late ex-President annually attended these celebrations, at which he cut his huge birthday cake, Elliott Perkins, Master of Lowell, will speak briefly at dinner, prior to the play, in honor of the former president...
...Dramatic Club has found a particularly unauthentic specimen. Thomas Austey Guthrie's conception of Moliere necessitates the frequent addition of his own prose, as well as incorrect and unidiomatic translation of the text itself. What reason could there be for translating "Parleral-je haut?" as "Is it permitted to speak in Madamo's presence...