Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parliamentary punishment, Senator Robinson told the Senate next afternoon: "I do not know whether my colleagues care whether I come back or not. But I am prepared to say now that if I have to continue to look at the Senator from Louisiana every day, if I have to hear him speak three or four times a day ... I think it would be a Godsend to me if in some way I got out of the Senate...
...from Nanking, 3,000,000 Chinese were last week reported starving. "It is distressing to walk the streets these days with misery and Death everywhere," reported George Birch, China Inland Mission worker. "Two-thirds of this area is without food and the remainder is approaching the same condition. I hear such things as five of a family of seven starved to death. A man climbed a hill to cut fuel and fell dead. Women with babies, exhausted and despairing, laid down to die." *The President's adopted son, James Lin, postgraduates at Columbia. Said he of his father...
With its general policy of sounding out the needs of students, a committee would be able to recommend to its department practical and suitable changes to conform with those needs. In its role as an advisory body, a committee would hear praises, complaints, problems, and suggestions which would insure real contact with student opinion. An army must have liason details between headquarters and the main body, so must a college have committees functioning between departments and the student body...
...must be "applied by a lectureship or in such other manner as the college authorities may from time to time deem most effective, toward creating or developing sound public opinion and action upon this subject." Because of this broad terminology, the Princeton students who will be forced to hear the lectures on feminism are still uncertain as to whether they will be urged to campaign for or against the woman in the home...
...forever eliminated from the language as totally meaningless. But if anything is typically American, it is freedom of speech. This Mr. Strachey has been denied. Certainly it is not necessary to agree with the author of "The Coming Struggle for Power," but just as certainly all who wish to hear him should be allowed the privilege, for he is a stimulating thinker. If logic were followed, Mr. Strachey's, which are widely read in this country, would all be burned in the Nazi manner...