Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sweeping as to include every bank and savings institution in the State, but I will not stand on technicalities. If you have information that one bank or savings institution in this State is unsafe, I am willing to accept that as sufficient justification. . . . If I do not hear from you within a reasonable time, I will refer this matter to the Attorney General for such action as is warranted...
...great hurry, to read reports from the continent. Hear that the House of Lords engages in debate on ways and means of abolishing slavery in India. "Tis wonderous, and happy too, that such ideas meet so little favor on these shores. King of England regrets that the civil war against the Queen in Spain goes on to disturb the general tranquility of Europe. Thought aloud and said that something will have to be done about Spain. To which Enoch replied laughing that something will ALWAYS have to be done about Spain...
...always very difficult to know what is happening right under your own nose. Those who have over participated in battle will know what I mean. You hear a lot of noise and see a lot of people do this and that and t'other things, but you have to wait for the newspapers from home to find out what really took place. There is therefore no use my trying to play the prophet, but I am under the impression that we are living in an age when Niotzsche's far-famed "revaluation of all values" is rapidly becoming a concrete...
...been dispersed by the inevitable flow of fresh commonsense, it is these boys of the Great Aloofness who will have to pick up the pieces and start the work of reconstruction. I don't want to get too involved in my flowery tirade, but those who have ears to hear will undoubtedly know what I mean...
...often hear it said that our universities ought not merely to train for success in life but that it is their bounden duty to train for leadership. This, I fear me, cannot be done. You no more turn out political and social leaders than you turn out Kreislers and Paderewakis or Rembrandts and Michelangeies. Such personages are "acts of God," like volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. They don't get made. They make themselves. But there is something we can do and which we ought to do if we have any regard for the interests of those generations as yet unborn...