Word: spoke
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...chemists in war and peace. While laying great stress on the overwhelming importance of bending all energies to a successful prosecution of the war, he refuted the conception that chemistry is primarily a war science, gave an idea of the great benefit it can be to humanity, and spoke of the need for chemists today and in the future. Professor Richards said...
...Spoke in New York...
Archbishop Lang, who is the first of the 89 Archbishops of York to cross the seas to America, spoke in New York on Sunday before two large congregations which filled the Cathedral of St. John the Divine to capacity, and in both cases crowds almost as large as the audiences themselves were turned away long before the service began. The Archbishop is a Fellow and Dean of Divinity of Magdalen College, Oxford, and was honorable chaplain to Queen Victoria. He was appointed to his present high position of Archbishop of York...
...introduced Captain J. P. Brown '14. The latter had been detailed by the commanding general at Camp Devens to attend the meeting and do all in his power to aid the cause of Smileage, which has done a great deal of good for the men at Ayer. Captain Brown spoke on conditions at Devens, and told of the surprisingly small amount of entertainment to be found near the camp. "Enlisted men have their evenings off," said he. "But there is very little for them to do. Often there used to be but one moving picture show for an entire cantonment...
Professor Sabine, who returned last fall from a long visit to the front, explained in detail during the lecture the organization of the Allied air service. He spoke at length of the three types of machines, the scouting, the battle and the bombing planes, describing their construction and utility. He emphasized particularly the importance of the battle-plane in controlling artillery fire, and of the bombing plane in offensive work. In speaking of the latter, he expressed the hope that America would produce bombers who would have sufficient control and training in the use of bombing-sights to obtain better...