Word: yesterday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hobbyist named Robert Vincent, every town and hamlet within range of 34 local radio stations in the U. S. and several in Australia, might have heard the voices that Edison and others recorded speaking scratchily from the past. Set in modern, radio-dramatized transcriptions under titles like Voices of Yesterday, History Speaks, etc., the old recordings recapture moments calculated to stir the memories of oldsters and give youngsters shivery earfuls from beyond the grave...
Other recorded voices of yesterday: Kaiser Franz Josef, Queen Victoria, Woodrow Wilson, Mark Twain, Henry Morton Stanley, President Taft, William Jennings Bryan, Rear-Admiral Peary, Ellen Terry, James Whitcomb Riley, Vice-President (to President McKinley) Garret A. Hobart. Hobbyist Vincent is now searching for a known recording of the voice of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, famed uxoricide...
Twenty-three members of the faculty received awards totaling to $22,610 from the Milton Fund for Research to pursue individual investigation and study for the coming year, the University announced yesterday...
Senator Milliard H. Tydings of Maryland will be the principal speaker at the banquet of the fourth annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton Conference on Public Affairs, to be held at Princeton the week-end of April 21 and 22, the executive committee of the Conference announced yesterday...
Tryouts for this year's triangular Harvard-Yale-Princeton debate and for the Coolidge prized will be held on April 18, 21, and 24, the Debating Council announced yesterday. The question for the debate will be "Resolved: That the United States should orient its foreign policy in vigorous opposition to the Fascist powers...