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Word: hear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be very interesting to hear from TIME readers on this question: which is better for the country, the speedy legislation of the House, or the delayed, much debated, sometimes contrary actions of the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Mozart's A Major Sonata, Schumann's Arabesque, Brahms' Variations on a theme by Paganini, smaller quantities of Chopin, Debussy, Albeniz-such was the varied course which Iturbi chose to run. Because he had played Mozart with the Philharmonic, his audience was not surprised to hear him endow the Sonata with a cool, fresh beauty seldom equalled. The Brahms technical difficulties were topped at a speed which was never bewildering. Debussy, despite its mistiness, had structure, clarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Iturbi | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...this time there has been an ever increasing undercurrent of feeling. From the Hague Conference down through the League of Nations and the World Court, clearer has come the cry for peace; and the nations of the world, weary and sick under their load of armor, are beginning to hear the call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUPPLY AND DEMAND | 12/18/1929 | See Source »

...founder-president of the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf (insurance organization); in Chicago; after an operation for gallstones. To a deaf audience of some 1,500 people, a deaf minister preached a sermon with his hands while his daughter translated it into words for those who could hear. By sign language also a trio, silently accompanied by twisting fingers in the crowd, articulated the hymns "Abide With Me," ''Lead, Kindly Light." "O Love That Will Not Let Me Go." Died. James P. Noonan, 51, president of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, sixth vice president of American Federation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...wished she'd not 'paw' him, they weren't engaged or anything. Last evening he'd told her so; in fact had gone into it at some length. When he'd finished she'd said: 'Oh, Tom, I just love to hear you talk like that! Kiss me, sweetie.' And she'd sat on his lap. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schoolhouse Fauna | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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