Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Earle, whose personal share of the country's un-redistributed capital is considerable, was to hear from the chains once more. Last week in what looked like an adaptation of the Sit-Down, the chains closed hundreds of their Pennsylvania stores with a bang, After turning the key on 80 stores in & around Philadelphia, an A. & P. official announced bluntly: "The stores we have closed couldn't have operated at a profit under the tax. Those where the volume of business is such that the business will show a profit after including the tax will be kept...
These visits of leading contemporary radicals are distinctly in the Harvard tradition. They show that the old university is vigorously alive to the developments of the day, that it is not afraid to face the new, and that, strong in the learning of the past, it is glad to hear and to appraise the ideas of the present...
...nerves in the body, the auditory nerve is most sensitive to drugs, said Dr. Taylor, and a majority of the 10,000,000 people in the U. S. who do not hear clearly may well blame their medicine cabinets and self-indulgences. Some drugs affect the ear itself, said Dr. Taylor; others the hearing centres of the brain. Most harmful is quinine, which has been found in the brains of deaf babies of women who took this drug to stimulate childbirth...
What Dr. Bremond saw then from 300 yards away had the deliberate horror of a slow-motion nightmare. The dogs closed in on the little girl. No longer could the doctor see Marie-Anne, but he could hear her shrieking. One of the dogs seemed to be worrying at a large rag doll. With their black gowns hiked up, the monks came stumbling and shouting from their quarters. When the dogs were finally hauled & called off, Marie-Anne lay limp and bleeding in the snow...
...complete, the Council will meet at 4:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon to elect officers and hear reports of the retiring president, secretary, and treasurer...