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  2. Magic minute - Wikipedia

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    The members are asked to stay within a 300 word limit. The speeches are granted with permission from the Speaker. [1] The magic minute is distinct from the Senate filibuster. [2] The House speaker, majority leader, and minority leader are afforded this privilege and their speeches are considered to have taken one minute, regardless of actual ...

  3. Speech tempo - Wikipedia

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    Various units of speech have been used as a basis for measurement. The traditional measure of speed in typing and Morse code transmission has been words per minute (wpm). However, in the study of speech the word is not well defined (being primarily a unit of grammar), and speech is not usually temporally stable over a period as long as a minute ...

  4. The story behind the longest Oscars acceptance speech ... - AOL

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    Even the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, which organises the Oscars each year, says it has newsreel footage of “only portions” of Garson’s address – for a total of three minutes ...

  5. List of speeches - Wikipedia

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    1880: Dostoyevsky's Pushkin Speech, a speech delivered by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in honour of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. 1890–1900s: Acres of Diamonds speeches by Temple University President Russell Conwell, the central idea of which was that the resources to achieve all good things were present in one's own community.

  6. Lightning talk - Wikipedia

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    A lightning talk in Wikimedia Conference 2016. A lightning talk is a very short presentation lasting only a few minutes, given at a conference or similar forum. Several lightning talks will usually be delivered by different speakers in a single session, sometimes called a data blitz.

  7. Trump rehashes bogus vote-fraud claims for 46 minutes in his ...

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    President Trump released a videotaped 46-minute address from the White House Wednesday that he said “may be the most important speech I’ve ever made.”

  8. Individual events (speech) - Wikipedia

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    The speech is supposed to be objective, without any judgement or evaluation of the topic. [3] The speaker's job is to make a complex topic easier to understand. In intercollegiate competition, the time limit is ten minutes and the speech is typically memorized. In high-school competition, time limits vary by U.S. state.

  9. BET Awards: Why Usher’s Lifetime Achievement Speech ... - AOL

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    BET is apologizing to R&B singer Usher after accidentally muting a portion of his Lifetime Achievement award acceptance speech during Sunday’s live BET Awards telecast. “Celebrating global ...