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Word: hear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...propose to hear Mr. Gibson now! If Dr. Rutgers will tell me exactly how long he wants to speak I may make a bargain with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hoover not Outhoovered | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...most famed restaurant had died, leaving Author Hergesheimer with only second-rate objectives. He made the most of Vienna's 38 varieties of coffee, all "superlative," but concluded that the city was passee. Budapest, with its slightly Oriental flavor he liked better, though he was shocked, on going to hear the gypsy music, to hear "Donna e Mobile" instead. "It was not necessary to travel the far way from Pennsylvania to Hungary to learn that donne were mobile. They were mobile in West Chester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Wine in Old Tanks | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

Texas" when they hear it. Relatively few of them, probably, ever knew, until they heard the Convention, that the tune has another name in other States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 18, 1932 | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

...January of this year an orchestra was organized in Charlotte and from the literature I am sending you will be able to ascertain the type of work we are doing. We have about 15 former symphony men playing in this orchestra and in due time you will hear great things from this group. We have in Mr. Guillermo de Roxlo one of the most capable of the young composers and conductors of Europe. This orchestra is supported by music lovers of the city and is sponsored by three of the outstanding leagues of the city. A large number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 11, 1932 | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

...mechanical models,* has a fly 4,000 times the size of the ordinary fly which gets into the kitchen. The colossal insect pokes its proboscis into a heap of "sugar," flaps its wings fearsomely. Blind children have vague ideas about house flies. They feel flies crawling on them, hear their elders talk about fly nuisance. To let blind children know just what a fly looks like the American Foundation for the Blind† has just had built a big fly model. All the contours, joints, vibrissa, hairs and feelers are there. The Foundation will loan the model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fly Time | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

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