Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bewildered electorate he boomed: "The overwhelming majority of people in this country know how to sift the wheat from the chaff in what they hear and what they read. . . . Americans as a whole are feeling a lot better-a lot more cheerful than for many, many years...
...morning in 1775 young Harrison Gray Otis, famed nephew of famed Patriot James Otis, found his way to school blocked by a column of British troops in marching order, ready to start for Lexington. Student Otis got to his desk just in time to hear Master Lovell, with vast relief, tell his unruly pupils: "War's begun and school's done. Deponite libros*." There was no more school until General Washington's guns blasted the British out of Boston...
...less than proud, remembering the rabid slaverings of himself and the rest of the pack during the hue & cry of the World War. But in 20 years the world-at-large has forgotten how mad it was. Last week those who still had eyes to see and ears to hear were treated to the most dispassionate analysis yet rendered of how and why the U. S. was gradually sucked into Europe's dogfight. Even some statesmen now agree that the War was a bad job, ill conceived and worse executed; plain men every-where have long ago decided that...
Little did she know that one day the poet Robert Browning would express her thoughts; but he did, and tomorrow at 10 the Vagabond will journey to the New Lecture Hall to hear Prefessor Munn discuss more of the poet's philosophy...
...professional pool-player were suddenly confronted with a table the size of a Ouija board which answered all his requirements, he would have been no more amazed than the professional musicians who flocked last week to hear a new electrical organ on view at the Industrial Arts Exposition in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. This new organ had no pipes. It was much smaller than a small upright piano and it cost only $1,250, as compared with $4,000 & up for most pipe organs...