Word: talked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant will address the Freshman Class in the main dining room of the Union after dinner tomorrow night. The speech, an annual welcome to incoming Freshmen, will be entirely off the record, and will represent no statement of policy. Rather, it is an informal talk aimed at answering questions and telling the new class what to expect...
...Dutch seem much warmer hearted and less materialistic than their hard-currency neighbors, the Belgians. Most of the Dutch I met this summer were very eager to talk to foreigners, and interested in America. They were cheerful, extremely proud of their country, and loved to talk...
...Senator Owen Brewster, they were able to borrow pants without trouble. But the incident set up a great and indignant gobbling: Keogh had been carrying the group's expense money in his wallet. It disturbed the Spanish police terribly also, since some of the Americanos were scheduled to talk to Generalissimo Franco in Madrid...
Unless the distinguished guest so requested, there would be no conferences of high state, no thought of pressure or promises, no hint of alliances or pacts, no talk of loans or investments. In a packed 3½ weeks' schedule, Nehru would speed from Washington to San Francisco, look in at New York and other cities, speak at the universities of Chicago, California and Wisconsin, inspect farms and factories, Mount Vernon, Hyde Park, the National Gallery of Art, TVA and White Sulphur Springs. The big emphasis would be on getting him acquainted with the productive panorama of U.S. life...
...Winthrop House talk resolved into a discussion as to which institution has a more satisfactory method of turning out better citizens. Cadet Robert G. Gard admitted, "We have no electives at West Point--we're aiming toward a single definite goal--soldier and citizen." There is a 60-40 ratio of scientific to cultural subjects in the Military Academy today, added Cadet Joseph B. Love...