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Word: talked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were kept at it consistently throughout the whole afternoon. A great deal of time was devoted to individual instruction after which Horween and Casey took the backs and ends and formed a skeleton team and the linemen were taken over by Coaches Dunne and Hubbard. A blackboard talk on line play followed for the linemen after which they worked out on the machines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SQUAD HOLDS DRILL IN SPITE OF HEAT | 9/27/1929 | See Source »

...college preserve, the destruction of quiet by the roaring arteries of traffic, is an incident common to every village and town. The coming and going, the opportunity of being somewhere else, that has a way of depopulating Harvard over the weekends to the belittlement of those gentler amenities, good talk and reading, has hit the American home just as acutely. If undergraduates are less in their rooms today, and consequently less accessible to the knowledge of one another and of books: if they are more in the company of girls, more addicted to dancing and visiting, thanks are largely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 9/27/1929 | See Source »

Last week Mr. Volstead, asked whether he would run for Congress again, made answer: "This is a sad time to talk politics but . . . it would be difficult for me to refuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Trail's End | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Catholic Congress, up reared the portentous bulk of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. England's three greatest publicists are the Messrs. Shaw, Chesterton and Herbert George Wells. Instead of replying to the Shavian sex sarcasm of the day before, Mr. Chesterton elected to assail Mr. Wells, evolutionist. He began by talking about atheists, of whom, he said, the world has very few. "An atheist," he boomed, "is much more difficult to emancipate than any one else because he is, above all people, the narrowest and most completely captive." But Mr. Wells is not even an atheist, explained Mr. Chesterton. He is merely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Emancipation | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...throws his voice into the dummy and lets it express his love. The imagery giving power to this anecdote was certainly apparent to von Stroheim. He started out to act it stiffly and gloomily, making you feel the knot in the head of the man who could talk in any voice except his own. Director James Cruze, however, seemed convinced that he was directing a story about show business. Before long he neglected the ventriloquist to supply atmosphere in the form of chorus girls dancing, getting dressed, chattering, rehearsing. Best shot: the Great Gabbo going crazy because he cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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