Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Strong Hon. '16, professor in the Harvard Medical School, spoke last night in the Living Room of the Union on the customs and habits of the various tribes of Liberia, the country in which he, at the head of the Harvard Medical Expedition, spent most of his time during the past two years. He accompanied his lecture with motion pictures, showing in detail the work of the expedition...
...debate was followed by a short address by Commander R. C. Grady, head of the Naval Science Department and an active member of the United States Navy, who led a fleet of submarines in the World War. He spoke on "Increased Naval Expenditures," bringing out first the point of national policy. People look with apprehension at the bill now before Congress for an enormous naval appropriation. It is true that both up-keep and original cost would involve a total of nearly a billion dollars. But such an expenditure would be not only desirable but indispensable. The United States...
Count Giuseppe Volpi, brilliant, suave, self-made Finance Minister, spoke to the Senate, last week, with what he styled "brutal frankness." The Government, he said, had put the lira on a gold basis (TIME, Jan. 2), but it will not go further and issue gold coins. Secondly, the Government will shortly lift most of the restrictions on foreign trading and exchange transactions with private Italian interests. Thirdly, notice is again given that Italy will continue repaying her debt to the U. S. only so long as her receipts from German reparations continue...
...earth, a bone is buried. And for this bone, with equal ardour, under a sky that is like a shallow bell of cold and darkly irridescent glass, across terraced and interminable lawns of snow, men and dogs scramble together. Last week, Richard E. Byrd, famed aviator, spoke of his proposed South Polar expedition. Said he: "I shall take three airplanes and 100 dogs...
...Right Rev. James Henry Darlington, Bishop of Harrisburg, who recently advanced 13 peculiar "joys" which young men could secure by taking Holy Orders (TIME, Feb. 20), spoke, in Manhattan upon this topic: The Holy Comforter, or Vision and Supervision. Said he: "We have many saints in our higher offices today . . . there are many flapper saints in short skirts. . . . We should all try to get back to the childhood spirit. . . ." In addition, Bishop Darlington asserted that only one person in 500 communes "directly" with the Holy Ghost; that he would introduce jazz music into services if he thought it would bring...