Word: speaks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Before the major could speak, Barsov pointed at the letter and exclaimed: "I know the handwriting on that letter, and unlike you, I'm not going to quibble with you for an hour about whether it's real. That letter was written by my wife . . . I know anything that's in that letter you've forced her to write . . . I'm still not going back." After nine hours the major finally returned with his lone catch, the flight sergeant, who wanted to go back in the first place. The plane was also returned...
During all the months that followed, Communist Politis was kept in solitary confinemen, permitted to speak to no one, even while he was hospitalzed. Recently he was brought into the office of the Security Police and confronted with toga. He took one look at her and said, "Remove her from the room. I'll talk...
...ranging from a teacher in grade school to wartime director of the WAVES (TIME, March 12, 1945). At 36, she was Wellesley's second youngest president. University presidents, resigned to each other's ponderous speeches, always perk up when trigger-quick Mildred McAfee Horton gets up to speak. Her best-known dictum justifying girls' schools against the advocates of coeducation: "It is easier to be scholarly when the boy friend is an event rather than a habit...
...King George for President Club in '28. This band of Royalists adopted a platform urging "amsigamation of Canada and the U. S., Grenadier Guards in place of Harvard cops, and cascara for Farmer's Relief." The Governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 came up to speak for Smith, and Republicans joined with the Cotton Workers' union in a Hoover parade...
...appeal of the first proposal to many comes from the belief that grateful remembrance of the Harvard men who gave their lives for their country should have the simplest possible expression, dissociated from any consideration other than pure sentiment. It would be, so to speak, a shrine, set somewhat apart from dust and clamor of daily life, but in an accessible place where the thoughts evoked by the memorial would occupy the observer's mind, undisturbed by the intrusion of extraneous interests, however important or useful...