Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leader Nash did not wait long to show his hand. The City Council met to hear Corporation Counsel William H. Sexton's opinion on its power to elect a Mayor. He said it lacked such power. In the Morrison Hotel that afternoon Leader Nash gave Democratic councilmen his opinion: "I recommend for acting mayor Alderman Frank J. Corr of the 17th Ward. Now let's see if the new leadership will operate. Meeting's adjourned...
...Stokowski as the thought that mere radio engineers had the power to regulate his music, to tone down his surging crescendos, to increase the volume of his fragile pianissimos. After his first few broadcasts Stokowski determined to operate the controls himself. Radio authorities were beside themselves but Stokowski would hear no arguments. He was finally given a desk fitted with dials which he could twiddle to his heart's content. The wires were not connected. Hidden from sight was a working set of controls which engineers manipulated as before...
Stokowski's numerous radio experiments have been loudly publicized. For a time his chief desire was to hear how his music sounded to outsiders, so he had a soundproof glass box made for himself, stood inside it to conduct, listened to his results through a loudspeaker. Later radio officials decided that he would never be satisfied until he had actually handled the controls. An attempt or two convinced him that the job was too finicky to combine with conducting...
...year-old pianist is giving concerts as fast as he can travel. Unlike other years, he will not stop to rest at his ranch in Paso Robles, Calif. His private car is hitched to one fast train after another. When it stands sidetracked, trainmen still gather around it to hear the old man tirelessly practice his trills and runs, sound out his smashing chords...
...Dramatic club would not be the only organization benefited by the conversion of the Big Tree pool. Such a theatre as might be erected there might also serve for the Cercle Francais, the Classical Club, the Debating Council, and smaller gatherings to hear eminent lecturers. Rather than let the Big Tree pool sit idle and the Dramatic club and her sister institutions go begging, the University should make some arrangement whereby the Holyoke street structure could be used by the Dramatic club for a period at least long enough to warrant remodeling...