Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plymouth, Vt. Miss Aurora Pierce, longtime Coolidge housekeeper, heard a tap on the homestead window. Allen Brown, a neighbor, was outside. She raised the sash to hear him say: "Calvin's dead, Aurora." She sat down in the room in which the 30th President of the U. S. had taken the oath from his father at 2:47 a. m., Aug. 3, 1923, and let her tears run in silent grief...
...hear much today about cooperation in research, and that is good in working out well defined problems which require great labor and often the collaboration of different specialists. But it is not all. It aids in solving difficult and intricate problems; yet it does not touch the greatest of all contributions to thought, that of discovering a wholly new problem to be solved. This, like a work of art or literature, is essentially the creation of a single brain. To select men capable of this, to set them at work in surroundings most adapted to entice and fructify imagination...
...hear from us after three months you will know that bandits have...
...proud boast of the government-controlled British Broadcasting Corp. that it gives the public, not what it wants, but what it ought to hear (TIME, June i, 1931). The Governors carried this policy a step further last month by presenting a radio feature which they felt not the general public but their fellow politicians ought to hear: a speech by Caricaturist David Low of the London Evening Standard, with the Daily Express's Leslie ("Jack") Strube (pronounced Strooby), the ablest of present day British newspaper cartoonists. Excerpts...
...left stood two glistening spheres on stark pedestals, capable of generating a million & a half volts of artificial lightning. From the shadows glowered the vast skeleton of a plaster dinosaur. All along the walls lay the paraphernalia of modern science. In every seat sat a scientist tensely waiting to hear how oppositely the two U. S. Nobel Laureates in Physics explained cosmic rays-Dr. Millikan, 64, preacher's son, head of California Institute of Technology; and Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, 40, preacher's son. professor at the University of Chicago. Although the Laureates spoke alternately, their speeches...