Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fergusons were the guests of the Waggoners and were invited to occupy their box, just as was Jim Farley. At a luncheon before the races, Mrs. Ferguson made a charming and appropriate little speech to the effect that everybody had come to see the races and not to hear speeches and what were they waiting...
...inhabitants of the island will hear a varied program, conducted by Malcolm H. Holmes '28, consisting of Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave" overture, "Tales from a Vienna Wood," by Johann Strauss, the "Dance Trepak" from Tschaikowsky's Nutcracker Suite, and the first movement of the Bach D Minor Concerto for two violins and string orchestra. The solo part for this last piece will be played by George K. Mateyo '34, and Austin Ivory...
This debate is being sponsored by all the Harvard Clubs and all the Princeton Clubs of Connecticut, and will be held in the Civic Center at Meriden. It is estimated that an audience of at least 1000 persons will be present to hear the speakers. Prior to the meet, a dinner will be held, attended by the Harvard and Princeton teams, their respective coaches, and the officials of the Harvard and Princeton Clubs of Connecticut...
...papers, charged that German Day was about to become a Hitler Day celebration. The audience jeered. A Dr. Griebl attempted to hit Bernard Ridder. Somebody twice pulled the chair out from under the Jewish treasurer, and a delegation of the United Societies Party wound up in City Hall to hear a riot act read to them by prognathous Mayor John Patrick O'Brien, who had forbidden the German Day celebration...
...correspondent, his hands stained with chemicals and his brow furrowed, informs us of a lecture he was constrained to hear in the bowels of Mallinckrodt, where is is taking an elementary chemistry course. The icy and drab instructor, he tells us, confronted his shivering students one afternoon with a more than usually bellicose air. "You are to take all readings in the laboratory in your notebooks," he said. "You are not to make notations on any other paper, of any sort. If you do, it will be to your disadvantage; the assistants have been instructed to take all miscellaneous notes...