Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line of least resistance will obviously recommend the Center to the new American student in Paris, and will make it easy for him to practice group insulation. Thus a very large part of the value of study abroad must disappear, for one may hear mere lectures delivered in French as well in Cambridge as in Paris. Educational critics have long attacked the self-consciousness of the American student abroad, and his unfortunate tendency to establish an exclusive colony of friends in a single pension. Such a project as the present one, which contemplates the enshrinement of this separatism...
...faintly irritating expression. Finally, flushing to the roots of its hair, it strikes the other, who succumbs with a pitiful rattle in its throat. As the woman reenters the room, the Vagabond flees back to his tower. But again, at nine this morning, he will issue from it to hear Professor Tozzer lecture on "Marriage and the Family," in the Semitic Museum...
...hear about Huey Long's letter, addressed Senator Huey Long, s.o.b.? He naturally was furious, and shouted that no one could call him that. Upon making inquiries at the post-office, he was informed that the letters stood for Senate Office Building. 'Well, that isn't what we call it down in Louisiana,' he sputtered...
...defense. What Counsel Leibowitz had to prove, every Southerner knows to be true: Negroes simply are not allowed on juries in Alabama. After two days of bickering, Judge James E. Horton, a Lincolnesque figure in the Circuit Court for 25 years, suddenly ruled: "The Court has decided not to hear further testimony on this question." Attorney Knight looked surprised. Counsel Leibowitz, believing himself armed with cause for another plea to the Supreme Court, looked pleased...
...little to object to in Chile's congressional debates. Deputies on the other hand were completely intoxicated with the idea that they were actually addressing their constituents and friends. Speeches dragged on hour after hour. Socialists objected because they said, "It is not right that the public should hear all the rude things said in this house." But the main reason of Chile's Congress for ending its broadcasting was that the effect thereof had been the precise opposite of that intended-a parliamentary stymie...