Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...performance in Vienna. Beethoven, a homely, dumpy, shaggy-headed little figure, stood in the orchestra, eyes fixed on his score, awkwardly beating time. He was not the official conductor. The players had been instructed to pay him no attention. He was so deaf by that time that he could hear nothing of the great, surging music called for by the pinny, almost illegible little notes he had made. He did not sense the applause which came afterwards until one of the soloists, a Fraulein Caroline Linger, turned him around so that his eyes could take it in. The music passed...
...life. For that the Burlington gave Pilot Freeburg a gold watch, the Chicago Daily News $100. The medal was for a feat unique in the history of air transport. The St. Paul radio operator of Northwest Airways one afternoon last month pressed his headset hard against his ears to hear again a laconic message: "Freeburg speaking. Just broke starboard propeller. Flying near Wabasha." Officials scowled apprehensively for the trimotored Ford carried eight passengers. "Freeburg talking. Motor vibrating badly." Cool, Pilot Freeburg continued to describe to headquarters how the terrific vibration of the unbalanced propeller jerked the motor from its mountings...
...chairman of Montgomery Ward & Co. (TIME, Dec. 7) and then president, has a peculiar way of talking. It is a slow, somewhat sarcastic and testy way. Men who sit with him on his numerous directorates know that before they get down to the agenda they are likely to hear Mr. Avery launch into often irrelevant, always amusing discourse...
...with the Professors. They have not known him, nor have they seen him, for therein lies his excellent wisdom. But he has heard them. Certainly the seniors have done likewise. Let them follow his example, for they will never have another chance. Let them go of a morning to hear their favorite professors...
...truly delightful corner, in Sever 11. There are all these and many more. They have given their time, their energy, and their devotion to the high cause of Harvard and they can not be forgotten or dismissed. They have taught us what we know; they are our education. Hear them again...