Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...task was almost inconceivable to the Western mind. China for 2000 years had been steeped in the Confucian doctrine that 'people can be made to follow but not to know why', and during the Manchu dynasty the notice was posted in tea-houses the country over--'Don't talk politics...
...such good teams recently. And I can walk beneath the trees with the girl friend almost as well as Grange. Of course he has played around with ice and knows how to treat that when it appears. Yet I can build a very good bonfire, and I like to talk to presidents, especially when they chew tobacco. That makes for community of interest. If anyone finds out where Parmalee is, will he or she please let me know? I'm tired...
Each speaker will gave a 25 minute talk outlining his standpoint and enumerating his arguments. Following this 20 minutes will be granted each man to ask questions of the other about his opinions on evolution...
Americans who talk loosely of the unavailable economic position of the United States and the beneficial political consequences of this position can hardly disregard these facts. At every turn in the world struggle for oil America's hand has been called. She now faces a situation economically dangerous in the extreme due fundamentally to European eleves ness in taking advantage of an American provincialism which cannot see before its nose, or rather beyond the narrow limits of the Atlantic and the Paciffe. The necessity for international point of view toward and understanding of the world problems has heretofore has little...
...White House came John Masefield, Lincoln-like British poet of the sea and of the chase, and Mrs. Masefield. He found the President "talkative and extremely affable." Later a Washington correspondent asked him: "Did you talk about poetry* or books?" "No," said Poet Masefield...