Word: spoken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Definitions of the word 'propaganda" varied on specific points considerably. Some stated that it was anything written or spoken. Others declared propaganda was anything intended to get people to do or to refrain from doing something...
Although organized just this fall, the Club is already a strongly knit group. Sixty-five students, over 50 of whom are undergraduates, form the membership Within the last two months Professors Brinton, Karpovich, and Fay have spoken, and plans are being formulated for a similar series of lectures next spring...
...international convention. Certainty came when, driven by gales, mines of German make washed ashore in quantities along the British North Sea coast and in Belgium, bashing into piers and bulkheads with savage detonations, frightful flotsam set afloat by the nation whose leader promised that Britain would now be spoken to "in language she can understand...
...strutted the proscenium at Manhattan's Metropolitan while more gifted Negro singers, by long-standing custom, were excluded. But in the field of concert singing Negroes like Roland Hayes and Paul Robeson have held their own with the best. Today's most famous Negro singer is soft-spoken Contralto Marian Anderson, whose big, warm-blooded voice is conceded to be one of the world's finest. Last summer at the tony Berkshire Festival near Stockbridge, Mass., another remarkable Negro voice! this time a soprano, threatened to claim a share of Contralto Anderson's laurels. The voice...
Said the Secretary, disagreeing with his chief: when the Maritime Commission first approached him, he felt that no question of foreign policy was involved. Then he realized he had spoken hastily, believed all officials should join in preserving the absolute integrity of the Neutrality Act, advised the Commission that there should not be even the appearance of any official step or course that might negate that policy...