Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Behind all this is the feeling that things are going to blow up. . . . The true strength of France lies in the fact that the land belongs almost entirely to small owners, the petit proprietaire of whom we hear so much. But unfortunately if the Communists get the command in France as they have done in Russia the petit pro-prietaire will merely become the hated kulak. And as there is no Siberia to which to send him he is likely to have a worse time than the Russian kulak...
...being pillaged by a war lord, and the war lord himself. Last week at the picture's premiere in Manhattan's Paramount Theatre, where the class struggle has heretofore been manifest only in arguments between patrons and ushers about smoking in the gallery, audiences were astounded to hear a well-organized claque applauding whenever Gary Cooper made his appearance. The applause subsided, however, when it became apparent that, despite the presence of a proletarian hero, the real theme was not Class War but True Love...
...world. This year Mr. Johnston is getting 575 Ib. to the acre of "strict middling" cotton which he sells at a premium over the market price. He gets along well with his 3,000 Negroes, wants to keep them. Newshawks therefore crowded around him last week to hear what he thought of the mechanical menace. Grower Johnston was skeptical but not scornful...
...sudden, are fabulous and some of them are real. Dean of the gold mining business is old Judge John W. Haussermann, who went to the Philippines 38 years ago as a second lieutenant of the 20th Kansas regiment and returned last July as Republican National Committeeman to hear Alf Landon accept his Presidential nomination. The tale concerning him is that anyone who put $100 into his Benguet Consolidated Mining 25 years ago would be worth $500,000 today. Even so, although he nursed his company along since 1909 it did not get into the big money until after 1926 when...
...half-brained patient made a remarkably good convalescence, went back to her family, capably took care of the house and children, gained weight and strength. Some paralysis and dullness of sensation remained on her left side; her face was lopsided. She could hear with only one ear, smell with only one nostril. Nevertheless, her friends noted no mental deterioration or personality change. She read constantly. Her sense of distance and perspective seemed unaffected...