Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Purpose: to hear the U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, frail, sensitive Robert Worth Bingham, ask the Conference to face the fact that its 1933 agreements fixing wheat export quotas and laying down internal wheat acreage restrictions have proved thoroughly unworkable. Ambassador Bingham, whose most important activities in London have had to do with wheat, was expected to urge that the Conference's quota and acreage agreements be indefinitely suspended...
There is only one type of role as far as the star of "Rain" is concerned, and that is light comedy, such as "Something Gay." "I love to hear the audience laugh. That is the best applause of all. In a serious drama I never feel that the audience is relaxed, and so I am always strained and tense myself. In light roles I'm always perfectly at ease...
...girls of the senior science class of Williamsport, Md. High School, returning from a chemistry demonstration at College Park. Most of them were in the rear. In front their teacher sat beside Driver Percy Line. The pupils were singing school songs so loudly that the driver could not hear well, and outside it was raining so hard that he could not see well. The bus started to lumber across a Baltimore & Ohio rail-road crossing, equipped with bell and safety signals, at exactly the same second that a B. & O. locomotive started to take the same crossing at top speed...
...caught up from there on. At the finish, the bows were so close together that, while the judges were trying to decide who won, an unofficial announcement through loudspeakers rigged along the banks gave the victory to California by two feet. While the crowd was yelping too loud to hear it, judges announced the real result: Washington, by two yards...
...authors are Alexander Kerensky and Paul Bulygin, a onetime captain of the Imperial Life Guards-even Bolsheviks would probably admit that the main facts of the story are true.* Less because some of the details are gruesome than because the end is inevitably tragic, most readers will want to hear this retelling of old news that is now history...