Word: spoken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...branded as unwise to the point of being inconsistent with the University's best interests. It is all very well to project an investigation which will explore the general question of the use of Harvard buildings by non-official organizations. But there are no logical grounds, dreamed or spoken, for prefacing this investigation by a move such as the refusal to grant to the Communist leader the right to appear here...
...avoidance of publicity is the ultimate aim of the Corporation, it has acted with a considerable lack of canniness at this juncture. If Browder had spoken to Harvard students as a thrice convicted murderer, the University would not have received more publicity than it is attracting at the present time. The Liberals of the nations are on the war-path, and it is hard to see how the Corporation could have ignored this...
...told of the other. The markings, said Mr. Pittman gravely, would be visible for five miles. Further, said Mr. Pittman solemnly, special "radio passwords" are to be given each U. S. ship, one set for the Allies, another set for the Germans, to be used when they are "spoken" by belligerent naval vessels. To this scheme of warfare made easy the Navy Department and the Maritime Commission merely nodded embarrassed heads, mumbled something about being "too busy right...
...foregoing statements were not spoken from the gutter. Author Smith is a writer and amateur chemist; Helwig is a physician who has opened about 5,000 corpses: their cold-sober documentation runs to 47 pages of 100-proof bibliography. Simple laboratory curiosity prompted their research...
...Wolf again dodged through the British blockade and limped home to her base. Of all German raiders she had outlived all but one.* She had cruised 64,000 miles, through every ocean and most of the British patrols of the world. Not once had she touched port nor spoken another German raider. Her victims totaled 135,000 tons. According to plan, she had mined England's chiel colonial ports, including Singapore. And until one month before her miraculous return the British Admiralty did not even possess a description...