Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to previous publicity the Lampoon will broadcast six times during this week. An amplifier has been set up on the Coop building in the Square, so that all men can hear the programs. The schedule includes 15 minutes on the air this evening at 10.15 o'clock from WNAC, a program from WBSO at 7.15 o'clock, Wednesday, May 3; from WHDH at 8 o'clock, Thursday, May 4; from WBSO at 5.15 o'clock, Friday, May 5; from WLOE at 8 o'clock, Saturday, May 6; from WEEI at 7.30 o'clock, Monday...
...criticism. I mean to say I have "set to music" a great deal of the best poetry of Villon and Cavalcanti with the intention of getting it out of books and to the consumer or recipient. When I can sit in the electrician's kitchen in Rapallo and hear the words (I mean understand which word is which not merely hear a blurr of melodious noise) of Maitland. Marquesita, Ferrari and R. Collignon singing Villon's poems in London I have done more than when I wrote a book about past literature...
...supposed to be an introduction to Philosophy through the historical method, but in actuality falls far short of its mark. The lectures are either very poor in content and well delivered, or of mediocre calibre and delivered in such a way that only those in the front row can hear, and then indistinctly. The section meetings once a week vary with the instructor, and for the most part provide the only opportunity for enlightenment in the course...
Diana: Like to hear you say that...
...Lins begged their visitor to excuse this relative's prejudice. Admitted to their hospitality, Nora Waln also had to obey their rules. After being presented to Kuei-tzu (Lady of First Authority in the House of Exile) she was forbidden to appear again until "sufficiently civilized" to hear and speak for herself; all members of the family were forbidden to speak to her again in any language except Chinese. Consequently she soon became "civilized." U. S. friends worried about Nora Waln, wrote and cabled her to come home, even went to China to persuade her. When she began selling...