Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over 200 turned out to hear former Professor Hermann S. Hering of Johns Hopkins lecture to the Christian Science Organization at Harvard in Phillips Brooks House last night...
...today the Vagabond cannot dawdle. At twelve he has a date with Harvard Hall, Room 6, and thither he god to hear Professor Langer on "Italy and the Revolution of 1820." He never misses a chance to hear the Great Young Man of the Department of History. Down in front, pencil in hand, sits the Vagabond as Mr. Langer mounts the platform to begin his lecture in the grating singsong voice that that startles you at first--and then picks you up and carries you along on a flood of fact, anecdote, opinion; now amusing, now perplexing, but continually...
...stricken brooding over the death of his beloved Queen Astrid (TIME. Sept. 9, 1935) and strike a heavy blow of statecraft which resounded from one end of Europe to the other. To the neat, bright Royal Palace in Brussels were summoned Premier-Professor Paul van Zeeland and Cabinet to hear an historic declaration reversing the post-War foreign policy of Belgium. By boldly assuming full responsibility for what he said, His Majesty raised his declaration above the cockpit of party politics, placed it on the aloof pedestal of a Throne which every Belgian deeply respects. It was significant that next...
...Ipswich the judge who will hear the Simpson suit this week is jovial, golfing Sir John Anthony Hawke, who was for five years attached to the present King in the capacity of Attorney General to the Prince of Wales. Assuming that Sir John grants the divorce, any technical flaw in this decision can be discovered only by another of Edward VIII's officials, the King's Proctor. The Ipswich assizes open this week but those at Norwich opened last week, with Sir John presenting his traditional spectacle of royal pomp. Up he walked with the Mayor, local judges...
...ignorance of the subject discussed. After 27 months of the Cuban revolt, when Spanish armies had been sent to that island, a popular move for U. S. recognition of the rebels blocked by Fish, the U. S. policy carefully worked out, Grant abruptly asked his Secretary of State: "I hear that Spain is sending troops out to Cuba, is that a fact...