Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole ;new Council will meet on Friday the choose officers and to hear the reports of the retiring president, secretary, and treasurer...
...husky monotone how she tossed two of her children out of a window, then scrambled out herself with the third. One child died, as did her husband. The others had chances of pulling through. Stewardess Elsa Ernst got away by sliding down a rope. Said she: "I could hear my hair crinkling as it burned." Passenger Herbert O'Laughlin, who ran black-faced into the hangar looking for a telephone to call his mother in Chicago, said: "I was in my cabin . . . packing . . . when I felt a slight tremor. . . . There was very little confusion among the passengers, no screaming...
Just how De Beers managed to make nearly $15,000,000 profits last year with only one mine in full operation was not elucidated by Sir Ernest. Stockholders merely accepted the fact with a rousing "Hear! Hear!" The company inventories its diamonds on hand at ?1, and presumably a large part of the earnings, aside from some $4,200,000 derived from investments in such enterprises as African Explosives & Industries, Ltd., were realized on diamonds mined in previous years...
Faculty members and undergraduates will dine together informally at 6.15, meeting afterwards in the Upper Common Room to hear a short talk from dean Westergaard...
...second because of teamwork, and the third because of spirit. The third pair have played together since school, but it is their never-say-die courage rather than teamwork that has won them the post. Test matches in which this team participated often attracted sizeable crowds just to hear the two spiritedly exhorting each other...