Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Topeka. The Governor's Topeka speech drew a crowd estimated at twice the size of the one that turned out last month to hear Charles Curtis accept the Vice-Presidential nomination in his hometown. Speaker Garner joined his teammate at the State Capitol. Said he: "I've come here to show you that I wear neither horns nor hoofs though I come from Texas...
...criminals and while one group pressed the muzzles of pistols to our heads and another squad held us covered from behind, a third stripped and robbed us. ... Apparently our clothes and baggage were worth more to the brigands than our bodies. In the midst of our misery we could hear the agonized cries of those pinioned in the wreckage, most of them horribly mangled...
...methods. In Trenton, while the wrapping will be done by hand, automatic Cellophane wrappers will handle 1,000 cigars for 90? against the $4 manual cost in Cuba. The ancient custom of each operator taking six cigars a day gratis will be abandoned and Trenton's girlworkers will hear a piano instead of the "reader" who entertains all Cuban cigarmakers with stories and political discussions, often...
This revelation, and a host of others, put a new light on the precipitous departure of Samuel Insull to Paris (from Quebec, aboard the Empress of Britain) and the flight of his brother, Martin John Insull to Canada. In Chicago the state's legal department opened an office to hear the complaints of investors, and set to examining extradition laws. But no criminal complaint had been filed and Insull loyalists insisted that the brothers expatriated themselves solely to avoid annoyance, petty litigation that would lead nowhere...
...tomorrow he will be a Freshman again, and go to the New Lecture Hall at nine o'clock, to hear President Lowell speak...