Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mass of college undergraduates develop into so many intellectual snobs. Collegians, he thinks, become so wrapped up in their educations that they despise all men who have not had the advantages they possess; they so cram themselves with learning that an effort is required for them to make their speech "comprehensible to the uneducated...
...Harnack, Scientist Max Planck. Hindenburg. Just as in Wartime both sides claim the Deity for their partisan, so last week did both armies in the great Battle of the Referendum claim the support of grizzled old Hero President Paul von Hindenburg. Hugenberg followers quoted the President's famed speech "protesting the War guilt lie" at the anniversary of the Battle of Tannenberg in 1927, as proof that he sympathized with them. Anti-referendumists quoted von Hindenburg's thanks to Foreign Minister Stresemann on his return from The Hague Parley (TIME, Aug. 19) as his personal endorsement...
Other items on the Chafee-Pollak agenda: Illegal suppression of free speech, lawless police interference in strikes and labor mass meetings, illegitimate espionage by Federal agents, use of the Third Degree, illegal methods employed by city police departments during "crime drives...
...Hoover's reaction to three present causes of friction between Dominion and U. S.: 1) The proposed U. S. agricultural tariffs infuriating to Canada's farmers; 2) Control of liquor smuggling; 3) Allotment of radio wavelengths of which Canadians are sure they have received no fair share. Speech of the Week. At the State Dinner in Canada's Parliament House, candid MacDonald revealed a trifle of what had passed before the log fire at "Kingsmere." Host King, a stickler for Canada's rights, had warned him not to speak possessively of "our Dominions" or "our Colonies...
...banish the split infinitive from the speech of Harvard men is perhaps an object worthy of the serious attention of the faculty, but the process is unduly painful. To sit at the feet of wisdom and imbibe a true love of the English language necessitates inspiring instructors, and in English A1, the inspiring quality of the instructor is more than likely to be determined by the whims of the fickle Goddess of Fate. Given a poor instructor, any natural inclinations towards the study of English are likely to be smothered under the soporific influence of the teachings of the mediocre...