Word: talked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only a few of these twelve could have had any idea that they were to be selected to take a leading part in the student government of the Freshmen, that they would eat with Mr. Marshall and Dean Leighton to talk over what would be best for their classmates...
...farm leaders, President Edward A. O'Neal of the American Farm Bureau Federation informed President Roosevelt that Government corn loans of 60?-per-bu. were imperative. Said Farmer O'Neal: "The condition of farm crop prices is one reason for the stockmarket being so jittery." Both the talk of corn and the talk of jitters were advance publicity for the belated refitting of the New Deal's battered agricultural ship. For when Congress convenes in special session next month a new, permanent farm program will be the first legislation considered...
...been possible for me to talk to King Edward VIII for just one hour, the abdication of His Majesty could have been avoided. He had a responsibility not only to Britain but to Europe of which he did not seem to be aware.-Adolf Hitler
Cockroft realized the greater potentialities of the Lawrence machine, had tried to persuade Lord Rutherford to acquire one. Rutherford was unimpressed. In Brussels, Cockroft asked Lawrence to give the old physicist a sales talk. Lawrence assented. Lord Rutherford declared it to be one of his principles that the equipment used at Cavendish should be developed there. Young Dr. Lawrence made a quick-witted thrust: "Sir, you use spectrometers in the laboratory every day, but they weren't invented there, were they...
...annual slack season which this year was concentrated chiefly in September,* such figures seemed ample reason for extreme good cheer among automobile-makers. Tending their new creations in Manhattan's vast Grand Central Palace (see p. 67), makers almost unanimously anticipated their best year, pooh-poohed Wall Street talk of a major Depression. But, though this week's show in Manhattan marks completion for manufacturers of the crucial business of launching new models, to an equally important segment of the automobile industry-sales and distribution-it is only the beginning. Some 515,000 people are engaged in making...