Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great mutual bond, they serve to acquaint graduates of the University everywhere with the progress that is being made in Cambridge and with the changes that time is slowly effecting along the banks of the Charles. If for no other reason than to enable Harvard men to see and hear the President and the leaders of the faculty, such annual meetings would be worth many times over their expense and the problems of organization. The Harvard Crimson is proud to extend to this meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs its sincerest good wishes and its hope that this institution will...
...Gibson had to take refuge in one of the galleries with a host of peers, foreign diplomats and other bigwigs, including the famed economist Sir Josiah Stamp and Bank of England's eccentric Governor Montagu Norman. So staggering was the Budget speech which all were keyed up to hear that Montagu Norman was reported next day to have "looked bewildered as if he could not follow or believe what he heard...
That broke Friedrich Froebel's heart, he died soon afterward. Last week fell not only the centenary of the kindergarten but Friedrich Froebel's birthday, and 750,000 restless U. S. kindergarteners had to sit still on their little red chairs long enough to hear his story...
...hear Banker Hall-the Hall of Chicago's Harris, Hall & Co.-the Bond Club last week turned out in full force. In a good-tempered reply to the Douglas broadside Banker Hall keyed his speech to the general thesis: "Always it is important not to kill a lot of fine wheat in an effort to stamp out a few weeds."As to the value of long-established banker-client relationships, Banker Hall quoted Britain's famed McMillan Report to the effect that what Old England needed was'not less but more co-operation between finance and industry...
Having been told just what they wanted to hear, the Bond Club members were delighted. Cracked Financial Editor Carleton A. Shively of the New York Sun: "If it does nothing else, the summary of the case may help to eliminate the defeatist feeling so common nowadays in financial circles...