Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were the sons and grandsons of the wild companions of old Jean Baptiste Lemoyne de Bienville, who came to the Mississippi in 1718 to found a city- New Orleans. One hundred years later it had grown into a town of 40,000, half of whom were slaves, where all spoke French...
...spoke ten minutes each in the final round, held in the Paine Hall of the Music Building. Presiding over the meeting was Mr. E.L. Bariche, while Mr. L.D. Peterkin and Professor L.J.A. Mercier acted as judges...
...three months longer than in the British or Continental-universities. And this fact is cited in partial justification of the reduction of formal exercises now decreed by Harvard. The use of that particular argument is significant. Time was, not many years ago, when American educators for the most part spoke of the long vacations at Oxford and Cambridge, with only slightly hidden disdain. These institutions, it was implied, were only easy going country clubs on opening anyway, compared to the stern standards of American and Tenionic teaching, and the long vacations were merely characteristic of the English students propensity...
...then the maiden paused, as if to catch a distant strain. Like an alabaster monument of Joan of Arc she seemed to stand the guardian vestal of the light that dwells in the Hallelujah-and-Amen type of evangelism. And as she spoke her thin childish voice quavered...
...that it would be followed, as a levee laborer follows a hand truck, lethargically. Theoretically, in the medical profession, a doctor is an enterprising individual; practically he is a follower of group thought. It takes strong shouting to start a professional group towards action. The doctors at Chicago spoke vigorously...