Word: wade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixteen men were selected from the thirty entrants in the Lee Wade and Boylston speaking competition to enter the semi-final round. The preliminaries were held in Paine Music Hall at four o'clock yesterday afternoon...
...accordance with the will, three English students will come to Harvard to study while Ebb and Cline are abroad. Two Cambridge men, Philip Marack and Henry Wade, and one Oxonian, Harold Callan, are scheduled to do research here...
...Dictator finished his annual Reichstag address (TIME, Feb. 6). Because he announced no troop movements, made no mention of forthcoming invasions and delivered his address in rather more subdued tones than usual, many correspondents, editorial writers, even statesmen called the speech "mild." Those who took the trouble to wade through the long, formless address, however, discovered that it was actually one of the most sensational and threatening talks ever made by the head of a State. Excerpts...
Most skillful is his use of symbols: in a story about the birth of a boy, fishermen launch a boat on the night sea; in a story set in conquered territory, a farmer carefully yokes his oxen; when the sirocco blows, a well-organized phalanx of shore-folk wade into the heavy sea to save men who are washed overboard in landing their boats...
...tryouts take on a special significance with the announcement of the Debating Council that the Lee Wade speaking prize money will be added to the money of the Coolidge award so that two prizes of one hundred and of fifty dollars each will be given to the two best men in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton debates...