Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Himelhoch, chairman of the Harvard delegation, explained last night that by scattering the contingent throughout the hall and having it rise as a body at a given signal, one member could generally be recognized, and then yield the floor to any other member who had a speech to make. Opposition to such tactics was short-lived, he said, since it was shown that parliamentary procedure sanctioned them...
...millions of British throats. Loyal subjects, drawn in sympathy to King George VI as never before, heard His Majesty bravely make a Christmas broadcast, his halting voice strained with emotion. In effect what the King had to tell his people was that the great effort to overcome his speech impediment, an effort which he has made for years and, which carried him through his Coronation without skipping or mispronouncing a single word (TIME, May 24), was too great for him to continue broadcasting...
Even in the few countries where freedom of speech is still preserved radio broadcasts are officially or unofficially censored, often for interesting reasons. The dignified Government-controlled British Broadcasting Corp., during the great Coronation Naval review at Spithead last May, was shocked into cutting off the air an announcer who burbled "Damme! The fleet is all lit up!" (TIME, May 31). The offense which moved the censors on that occasion was obviously against sobriety. Last week BBC exercised its power of censorship again and Grey Owl, famed Ojibway of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, who a few days earlier had lectured...
...individual has 1) a "recognition," 2) a "possible" use (8% smaller than "recognition") and 3) an "actual" use vocabulary. No accurate tests have been made of the "actual use" vocabulary, but a professional writer who went through Dr. Seashore's test marking words he had used in, speech and writing claimed a working vocabulary of 40,000 basic and 40,000 derived words, a "possible use" vocabulary...
Connie Mack remained at his party an hour and a half, delightedly chatting with some of his old players: Jimmy Dykes (now manager of the Chicago White Sox), Herb Pennock, Chief Bender, Rube Waiberg, Howard Ehmke. Then he quietly thanked them all, made a short speech and rode back to his Germantown home to rest for three hours after the excitement. Connie Mack has been in poor health since he was injured by a batted ball during spring training in Mexico last year. During the last six weeks of the season, when he was afflicted with an old gall bladder...