Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...listen: I have saved the sweetest part of my letter to the last. Your ears ought to burn today! One of my countrymen, Professor Pease, speaks about you this afternoon. Are you not glad? Will it not please you, dear Cicero, to hear about yourself: Your letters; your philosophy; your orations--even your private life? Fear not, in this latter matter the professor will be discreet. But how is Publilia? I shall be waiting to meet...
...cold, calm February night in 1865, the members of a little science society gathered in the town of Brünn, Austria, to hear a paper on inheritance in plants by an Augustinian monk from the nearby monastery. Gregor Johann Mendel wore a long, black coat and his trousers were tucked into his high boots. He was a plump, genial man with bright, blue eyes...
...Cutting (TIME, May 13 et seq.), the Senate inquiry came out into the open last week for the first time after eight months of special investigation. Empowered only to make recommendations to the Senate, the committee, chairmanned by Senator Copeland, called many an aviation bigwig, scheduled four days to hear their testimony. Excerpts...
...21st. Up, and comes the news F. Roosevelt the President arrives tomorrow for which I am glad, having not seen him since he was governor of New York. Also I hear this day talk of some unofficial merry-making in his honor: some broadcasting business (that he will speak for the committee I am not sure); some bell playing; even fireworks. But of this I now vow to wash my hands and leave it all to Julian Coolidge's Bellboys and more subtle wits. For well I remember last year how sore at my heart I was to have...
...Tower and there found--who comes to bring me a poem. But it be so void of humor I could not accept it and so, I hear, he sends it to Lampy. Whereupon he tells me this little stint be oftentimes very dull and I ought to write about such things as the Wellesley Senior who won ten dollars from an Eliot House Sophomore by swallowing the House Mother's goldfish! Both are still doing nicely in the Wellesley Infirmary. But I already too much of this and so to the office to note the schedule...