Word: spoke
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...speech before the Convention President Lowell spoke as follows...
Dean Yeomans, in awarding the scholarship, spoke a few words about the difficulty of staying at college in war times...
...weekly meetings of the Aeronautical Society were resumed last evening when the society discussed balloons and their uses in the present war. A. H. Andrews '20, who has had experience with the balloon department of the Goodyear aviation plant at Akron, Ohio, spoke upon the construction and operation of military airships and the uses of the aerostatics or balloon type of aircraft...
...subject of Mr. Eddy's talk has not been announced, but it will probably touch upon the war. During last year, Mr. Eddy traveled through France and England, visiting the various Y. M. C. A. huts at cantonments and at the front. When he spoke before an audience of Freshmen in the Smith Hall Common Room earlier this fall, he described the work being carried on by the Y. M. C. A. "over there...
...millionaire bachelor demonstrates in many successive speeches that he does not appreciate Christmas, he leaves the club and starts for home in his "perfectly appointed car." Presently he learns from his chauffeur that they have knocked down a child--"a wisp of a girl, poorly clad, whose pinched face spoke the lack of food." From this point on the old millionaire buys Christmas presents until along toward the end, when we hear of "the star which they saw in the East"; and catch from the mother of the wisp that ever-beautiful sentiment, "God bless you, Mr. Campbell. My dead...