Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been wanting to write to you for months to tell you that "The March of Time" program fascinates me and I hear many favorable comments from friends. Your audience, I think, may not be the type of radio fans who write letters and you may not get as many letters as some of the others, but I feel that your program is going over. It is a marvelous one and always fascinates me. It portrays current events in a most dramatic and interesting way. The musical interludes are well played and the music is wonderfully well chosen...
...both sides of the border the U. S. and Canada last July signed a treaty to construct a $543,000,000 seaway along the St. Lawrence River connecting the Great Lakes and the Atlantic (TIME, July 25). Last week Senator Borah and his Foreign Relations colleagues sat down to hear what was wrong with this pact. In five days, opponents of its ratification piled up such a mountain of objections that even its friends admitted it had little chance to get through the coming short session...
...missions had now fallen off alarmingly. People no longer thought missionizing the best way, as they thought it 30 years ago, to spend their charity-money. Most people did not know or care much about conditions in foreign mission fields. Mr. Rockefeller had called his Baptist friends together to hear Dr. John R. Mott, who had just journeyed around the world to look at missions. Out of Dr. Mott's talk grew a plan...
...hear our verdict true...
...better middle class speech." The English teachers said that they "believe, of course, in the necessity for emphasizing the correction of unmistakable errors-for which there should now be more time." In other words, in correcting themes and essays they could skip the small frequent errors which children hear at home and will hear all their "better middle class" lives. Some usages now viewed by 6,000 U. S. teachers as permissible: Who are you looking for? Invite whoever you wish. None are expected. Everyone was here but they all went home early. Healthy climate. Pretty good, awfully...