Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Holcombe, who expects to make Russia his final goal on his trip in Europe, spoke briefly in his last letter to Professor Elliott of the various points that he had visited, and some of the incidents that befell him on the way. Arriving at Port Said, Professor Holcombe says that there he had made a brief survey of the government, and then proceeded on to Geneva, where he attended the meetings of the league of nations. He expects to make a report later of his observations there. From Geneva, Professor Holcombe said, that he journeyed down through the Balkans...
After the dinner new members, mostly first-year men, were initiated into the club, and Consul Marquis Ferrante, Professor J. B. Weston '97, and Professor George La Piana spoke on the purpose of the club, on the furthering of Italian knowledge among Americans and other Italian subjects...
...Story. Dundee was a very sick little boy when he first met the stranger face to face. Delirious with fever, Dundee tossed on his bed. They thought that Dundee might die. Then the stranger appeared and spoke to the lad: "Things are not very certain with you and if you want to take my advice, you had better hold fast to the bed. If you are not very careful, Dundee, it will slip away from under you." So Dundee held fast to the bed and soon was well...
Arriving at the cemetary which surrounds Novo Devichi, the coffin was carried to the edge of the grave by Trotsky, Zinoviev, Radek, Kamenev, Rakovsky and an unspecified member of the Joffe family-all Oppositionists. Foreign Commissar Georg Tchitcherin, representing the Central Committee of the Communist Party, spoke first, paying an eloquent tribute to M. Joffe's services and ability as a diplomat. But the greatest of all the speeches was that of Leon Trotsky, the Communist outcast...
...speech. "Why?" asked Mr. Page. Answered President Trotter: "Because this is a state-supported institution and too much turmoil had been caused by the invitation." The Reserve Officers Training Corps, the American Legion, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Ku Klux Klan had protested. Mr. Page spoke outside the campus, to 75 students...