Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Violent opposition to progressive ideas brings them all the more into the lime-light, and although all new things must face a long period of controversy, birth-control knowledge cannot help but become more general in a future era of increasing economic pressure as well as greater freedom of speech...
...ministers to France (Benjamin Franklin), he might feel, if he got the post, that he had earned it. He has worked up the Republican ladder diligently, from clerk in the New Jersey State Senate, to Governor, to the U. S. Senate. His earnestness and lack of poise while speech-making make him accompany his words with an up-and-down motion of the elbows which has brought him, among newsmen, the title of "The Jersey Buzzard," which he bears cheerfully. Lately his earnestness is reported to have taken the form of deep religious feeling...
...Wilder brain. There was a pronounced development of the areas which are associated with scholarly gifts, such as has been found in the brains of some 40 other eminent persons. The length and depth of the furrows in the brain were marked. Especially was this true of the speech, visual and hearing areas. One peculiarity was the atrophy of the olfactory (sense of smell) region?a condition, apparently, of long standing...
...speech was defense by attack. Delivered before Chicago brokers and businessmen, it defended the Stock Exchange by attacking the Federal Reserve. Outstanding points...
...Columbia graduate and onetime medical student made a speech last week and within 48 hours his office had received requests for 40,000 copies thereof...