Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wednesday and Thursday. Crime Commission meetings. Made a speech (see p. 14) and introduced other speakers at the banquet. Entrained for Cleveland late that night...
...brought about its practical divorce from medicine. Almost anyone can hypnotize another person, if the other is willing. Skilled and tactful hypnotists can put nine out of ten subjects into that deep pseudo-sleep. (Hypnosis is closely related to but not the same as sleep.) Automatic handwriting, mediumistic speech and the like phenomena of spiritualism can be rationally explained as exhibits of hypnotism. Stage magicians put their victims through all sorts of antics for the laughter and admiration of audiences.** Consequently U. S. people, even though they might know the value of hypnotism in sickness, fear causing the ridiculous...
...You?! You?!" yelled Schwartzbard, jumping to his, feet, incoherent with rage, his shoulders quivering in spasmodic jerks. Recovering his powder of speech, he continued...
...breathing air passes between the cords. To make sounds, the cords assume varying tensions; the passing air makes them vibrate; vowel sounds result: the palate acts as a sounding board, the mouth as a resonance chamber. In talking the palate, tongue, teeth and lips modify vocal sounds into speech...
...spite of this antithesis of men, last week's Institute meeting resembled those under Judge Gary. Mr. Schwab made a careful speech in which he stressed the necessity of a "proper and economic distribution and selling" of steel products. That was a formula that meant that steel prices must be changed. Iron and steel companies have not been making ordinary profits recently. President Eugene Figgord Grace of Bethlehem Steel suggested to the Institute that because producers have done everything they know to reduce manufacturing costs they might have to reduce wages. U. S. Steel Corp. men there opposed...