Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rain on a marshy flat. The Simoon is gone! Oaths from native drivers bring struggling beasts to their feet. Loads are replaced, straps tightened. Hearts beat high again with hope. Endless journey across the white sands of the Gobi is resumed . . . and the Vagabond travels to Chinese 11 to hear Mr. Gardner in his charming and inimitable manner recount dramatically life in the Far East as few have been privileged to know...
First, students and faculty men in various fields of engineering may meet and exchange ideas, and also hear men eminent in these fields discussing the latest advances in their branches. The backbone of our program thus consists of frequent addresses by practicing engineers. Men in physics and chemistry and often in economics and other fields will find our meetings interesting...
Counting on the same fair, vigorous treatment, everyone expected the Board to handle Textile's troubles as successfully as it had handled Steel's. It was to have much the same powers in its new capacity-to hear all disputes on unions, wages, hours and working conditions, to supervise employe election's for collective bargaining purposes, to arbitrate if requested. Except for disputed cases involving the collective bargaining clause of the National Industrial Recovery Act, which may be passed on to the National Labor Relations Board, its findings and decisions will be final. Last week it plunged...
...late Sir Thomas Lipton made five amiably unsuccessful attempts to win the Cup was evident last fortnight when Rainbow completed its defense against Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's Endeavour. Skipper Sopwith sharply expressed his dissatisfaction when the New York Yacht Club's Race Committee refused to hear his protest after the fourth race. Both Rainbow and Endeavour finished the sixth race with protest flags flying so that it was hours before anyone knew that Rainbow had won the series. Last week, when Skipper Sopwith's ire had cooled a little, he explained his views...
...held at the Waldorf, was an even greater success. This year no less than 38,000 women applied to the Herald Tribune for tickets, and 25,000 actually registered for the five sessions. The ballroom had seats for only 2,500. A thousand others packed the adjoining halls to hear the program from loudspeakers...