Word: talked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stressing the growth of public squares in the towns of the eighteenth century, Dr. Siegfried Giedion, Historian of Art and Architect, Zurich, spoke last night at Fogg Museum. His talk was the third of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures on the subject of "Architectural Inheritance...
...graduate student of Romance Philology, was much more explicit than the other members of the triumvirate. According to him, the club now has 25 members, and is strengthening itself with new and "serious" devotees. "It is virtually a discussion group," confided Chart, "we often meet at my house and talk quite intimately...
...drop "one of the most important experiments . . . in teachers' education." Cried New College's faculty: "The passing of New College will destroy the position of Teachers College as a leader. . . ." Snapped Dean Russell: "Any talk about ulterior motives is bunk...
Dinner at 8145 is usually attended by three or four uninvited guests (if too many come, they have to split portions). If the talk becomes listless, the impish Beaver does not conceal his distress. Raising his thin arms over his head he exclaims: "Oh God, I'm bored!" His Canadian birth has not prevented Lord Beaverbrook from conforming to the Old World type of the powerful man with the courage of his caprice. His newspapers are not strictly newspapers. Morning after George VI was crowned, the Express played the story on page one but the banner headline went...
...Captain Liddell Hart winning both a popular following and the respect of experts. Now wars are again making military commentaries popular. Last week Liddell Hart published Through the Fog of War, contributing little new material, but .including a moving epilogue as fine as anything he has written. People who talk of preventing war are already two years out of date, he says; the second great war of the 20th Century started in 1936; and in Spain, in Central Europe, in the Far East, the powers are maneuvering for strategic positions before delivering the decisive stroke...