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Word: hear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hogan, I do not believe that I want to hear any more. I have listened to the case very fully. It has been fairly argued on both sides. It does not make any difference whether it is Mr. Silas Strawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Black Booty (Cont'd) | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...horror-struck jury of townsfolk and farmers were rewarded in a manner almost unprecedented in the annals of British justice. Cried Presiding Justice Singleton: "I excuse you all from jury service for the rest of your lives because of the dreadful and gruesome details you have been forced to hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Dreadful and Gruesome | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...Washington lately. New Deal economists have scratched their heads over the Rust picker, pondered the plight of the great mass of black humanity in the South which makes a living picking cotton. They were encouraged to hear that, far from being rapacious moneygetters, the Brothers Rust, professed Socialists, were willing to forego profits rather than deliver a body blow to Southern labor. Holding 51% of the stock in their manufacturing company at Memphis, the Rusts offered marketing control of the picker to the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. The Union had too slim a purse to accept. The Brothers left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Program for Picker | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

Thence, by and by, I back with--who asks me to lunch at Leverett House and I was glad to go. I learn there be much festivity there on Friday night and I know it will be merry, but, I think, I to hear President Conant's address at Sander's Theatre instead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/20/1936 | See Source »

Anon, I to Mr. Hersey's class and there did hear one pretty Dorothy Speare, author of the film, "One Night of Love", discover "Aristotle in Hollywood". I was much surprised to learn that Mae West neither smokes nor drinks and goes to bed at nine. How these flickers fool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/20/1936 | See Source »

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