Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...valuing machinery and reporting about our technique has been learned, but I fail to hear a single case of reports being made with similar eagerness as to how many people we have trained in a given period, and how they have been helped to grow and become experienced in their work. It is time to understand that the most valuable of all capital is the people. If we have enough trained men in our factories, farms and army, our country cannot be conquered; if not we are lame in both legs...
Silence in the observation train. The entire flotills of destroyers, patrol boats, canoes, yachts, and excursion steamers which follow the wake of the racing shells seem to pause in absolute quiet. Clearly, Referee Curtiss voice rings out for all to hear, "Are you ready...
...went through their paces. At 9:40 the burly priest charged theatrically onto the platform, gave his Protestant friend, the Rev. Herbert Bigelow, an impulsive hug, strode up to the microphones. Eighteen thousand people jammed the hall. In the basement were some 7,000 more who had paid to hear Priest Coughlin through loudspeakers, see him for a few minutes after the main show. In the streets some 5,000 lackpenny Clevelanders cocked their ears to loudspeakers. A handful of Socialists carrying placards urging people to join the Socialist Party rather than the National Union had their banners snatched...
...knees. In front of Miss McCully was a curtain, in front of the curtain a tank of water, in front of the tank oglers. When Miss McCully raised the curtain her image, three inches high, was reflected by a system of mirrors into the bowl. Miss McCully could hear her audience plainly, see them hazily through the water. "Once," said she, "a guy waved a $1,000 bill in front of the bowl and asked me to stand up. They said he was a big banker but how was I to know the bill wasn't counterfeit? Gary Cooper...
...Finland, away from the world's musical spotlight, there lives a bald, rotund old man who with his music has won more respect than almost any other living composer. Finns idolize their Jean Sibelius, stamp and cheer when they hear his music expertly played. Last year they cheered Werner Janssen, son of the Manhattan restaurateur ("Janssen Wants to See You"). And because Sibelius praised him lavishly too, young Janssen was given a chance this winter to conduct the New York Philharmonic-Symphony...