Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returned in time to hear Laborite Lord Noel-Buxton flail the Government's Imperial policy-a policy which Earl Baldwin has been intermittently sponsoring since 1923 when he first became Prime Minister. Lord Noel-Buxton thundered that the Government was bungling its African relations, urged the Imperial Conference, meeting in London, to see to it that the peoples of the Empire were protected "regardless of race." Earl Baldwin said nothing...
...endowment. An unexpectedly dark horse, Chancellor Kirkland insisted on appointing his own Board of Trust to manage it. When the Church refused to relinquish control, Chancellor Kirkland broke its grip in Tennessee's supreme court. Soon Vanderbilt's were the first Southern classrooms to hear about Evolution and modern geology. Armed with several millions more from the Vanderbilts and the General Education Board, Chancellor Kirkland replenished his faculty, secured in 1919 the General Education Board's then record single outlay ($4,000,000) to build a Medical School...
...beach artists, he deplores the trend toward commercialism, would prefer a return to the oldtime "innocuous" status, intimates that he will take steps if boardwalkers are further bothered by money-chiseling sand-chiselers who persist in erecting by their studios such poems as: Kind words I like to hear To praise I'm deferential Criticisms I get now & then But the coins are the things essential...
...Ivens had introduced it, and it was only after some difficulty that Chairman MacLeish managed to get it stopped. The sound had not been put into the picture, so occasionally through the hot silence the ghostly voice of Photographer Ivens would be heard saying, "At this point you would hear machine guns." But also because it was a congress of writers, they filled such gaps with their imaginations, responded with enthusiasm to some brilliant photography, much of it taken under fire, of the shelling of University City, and of Madrid streets, and an air raid on Morata...
...question of the worth of a Harvard education is readily answerable. But it is doubtful whether the questionnaire is, or the article. In the first place, there is little indication on the query that one wishes most to hear about. What happened to these fortunate men who graduated and settled down just before the Crash? In the second place, when any group of men in their early thirties stand up and say they came to college for "mediocre reasons," lived "mediocre, mildly pleasant lives," and got "mediocre jobs," that group may indeed have the right to be mediocre...