Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer was quick in coming, and it was made in tones as sharp and ringing as the clang of a plowshare on granite. When Leader Kline rose up to speak, in the gilt-&-crystal ballroom of Chicago's Stevens hotel, the 3,500 listeners burst into a roaring cheer: "Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar! Everybody for the Farm Bureau stand up and holler-Yeah!" They cheered again when he lambasted Charlie Brannan's plan: "This is the road to tyranny . . . The people who are supporting this plan are either very dumb or they...
Today, at 53, Baxter gets embarrassed when students speak of him as their favorite professor. "I don't want them to be aware of me," he insists. "It's the subject they're learning, not the professor." Keeping them unaware of their professor was one of few things in which he had failed. Like Shakespeare, Frank Baxter was one of the experiences at U.S.C...
...Manhattan's Hotel Commodore last week, the top brass of two big league ball clubs eyed each other for size and vulnerability. Both were suffering similar symptoms: the New York Giants had some stars who did not speak Manager Leo Durocher's roughneck language and the Boston Braves had a long list of players who were incompatible with easygoing Manager Billy Southworth. A swap might keep both from repeating their indifferent 1949 showings...
...opposing schools of psychology will clash on the subject of "Utopia" tonight in Harvard 6 when Henry David Aiken '40, associate professor of Philosophy, and Burrhus Frederick Skinner '31, professor of Psychology, speak under the auspices of the Students' Association for the Natural and Social Sciences...
Then last night Jay E. Janson '51, president of the Young Republican Club, said that his group also was against the oath and that he would speak to the other officers about joining the movement opposed...