Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More exceptional will be a Negro Life Building (culture, not insurance); exhibits of the oil industry, among which will be a Hall of Religion provided by Lone Star Gas Co.; a radio theatre where audiences can see and hear Fair broadcasting, provided by Gulf Refining Co.; a jungle full of life-size dinosaurs provided by Sinclair...
...silver trumpets of the Horse Guards blew a fanfare, then up stepped Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, Garter Principal King of Arms, looking like a very expensive Jack of Clubs in his stiff gold-embroidered tabard, and began to read from a long parchment scroll. All the world could hear him, for microphones were concealed in the balcony rail. The first sentence lasted twelve minutes without a period. Excerpts...
...years it was almost never out of his mind or off his tongue. The American Museum agreed to provide space if the exhibits were forthcoming. In 1925, hear ing that George Eastman was going to Africa to hunt, the naturalist went to the rich Kodakman and said: "Mr. Eastman, I've got to have $1,000,000." Eastman offered to pay all the expenses of an expedition, to give $100,000 besides for transportation and reconstruction of material. Carl Akeley's dream was beginning to come true. Next year he died of fever in Africa, was buried...
...nose of great business is here to see me. So, I, very quick, up wondering who it be; but soon found out and vexed at my heart to see it be only the good Samaritan, Max Keezer. So we to do great bargaining and I very merry to hear him talk. But I not to give in to his offerings for I have heard his next step is to flip for the amount of the disagreement; and I did wait for this; and, bless my soul, it did come. But I, very foxy, would not do it after...
...much it owes to such men for the conquest of the woes and the lightening of the burdens of human life. "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife," with hardly a thought of material rewards for themselves, they quietly pursue their quests. Only at intervals does the world hear of them, as when they bestow some gift on their fellow-beings which makes all men their debtors. One is to be recognized at Harvard for his work with infectious diseases, another for his studies of the child mind, a third for his research in cugenics. There are biologists...