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| Title | The Fundamentals of Speech: A Text Book of Delivery, with a Section on Speech Composition and Interpretative Reading |
| Author | Charles Henry Woolbert |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Harper & Bros., 1927 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 24 Feb 2006 |
| Length | 536 pages |
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