Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Came Friday morning and Citizen Roosevelt awoke from the sleep of the elected to hear that 22 states and the District of Columbia were in the depths of banking restrictions and moratoria...
...hear the happy bluebirds singing in the rain...
Amid tense excitement the British House of Commons met to hear Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, many times a defender of Japan at Geneva, state the embargo policy of his Majesty's Government. "If the supply of arms is to be stopped," said Sir John, "it can only be done by international agreement. . . . Existing contracts must be respected, but subject to this, the Government has decided, as from today, pending international consultation such as I hope for, the Government will not authorize nor issue licenses for the export either to China or Japan of [arms]. . . . The action...
...churchman, startled high-church Anglicans in 1924 by inviting any and all Nonconformists to preach in his new Liverpool Cathedral. Later, deploring "anything mean or tawdry in music," he vigorously led his congregation in hymn-singing. Last week U. S. radio-owners learned that they would be able to hear Bishop David talk from England March 17, during a series of international and national Lenten broadcasts* sponsored by the New York Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society. This week London's stalwart Bishop Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram leads off. Others: New York's Bishop Manning, Montreal's Bishop Farthing...
Driving an automobile at 253 m.p.h. you hear, not the roar of the motor, but a loud whistling made by the wind rushing into the cockpit where a vacuum might develop if there were not a small hole in the windshield. You see, through a pocket of glass, your car's long bonnet with a motor-revolution gauge a little to the right of where other cars have a radiator cap, outlined sharply against yellow sand. At one edge of your line of vision is a dark line made by a crowd of spectators and, on the other side...