Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While he spoke, the rattle of gunfire echoed through the auditorium. Outside, a handful of Lebanese Communists had picked a fight with the police. They were driven off, but when the session was over the police were not satisfied. Lebanese Communist Mustafa Aris was in the hall as an accredited observer for the World Federation of Trade Unions, and the irate police decided to pick him up and toss him in jail, diplomatic immunity or no. UNESCO's secretariat promptly protested, and while Mustafa languished in stir, the understanding Lebanese government promised that in future, before a UNESCO delegate...
...smug and desultory debate on "aid to China" droned along in Washington conference rooms. Nobody seemed to think -certainly nobody spoke-of how the U.S. was to get the aid from China it would need in the years to come. Nobody said: "This is our war, and this is a major battle." Nobody asked for whom the bell tolled...
When Newman spoke out against the Bloomfield doctrine, Harvard silently agreed with him, and a portion of the rest of the nation did also. But perhaps this was only because they were mistaking certain meanings, meanings often misunderstood in the days of Thomas Committees and Barnes Bills. Perhaps these people defined such phrases as "fuzzy-minded" and "American" in certain ways, and thought they knew which phrase to apply to whom. But the word now is that Newman's supporters are wrong about their adjectives. They have been caught napping, and while they have slept, these phrases and other outmoded...
Moderator Bart J. Bok, professor of Astronomy, spoke in place of Professor Bridgman, whose illness kept him away...
Steinberg spoke on "The Public's Stake in New Medical Research," stressing the effect of the atom in the medical field...