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Word: hear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Evidently Mr. Wagner of Nebraska is not or never was a father. If so, his heart must be made of stone, for his statement accusing the Lindberghs of "petty treason'' is the most absurd accusation I have ever heard or ever hope to hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Apr. 4, 1932 | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

This he did, Schoolboy Stalin plausibly explained, in obedience to the injunction of an Orthodox Bishop who had said, "If you hear sacrilegious speech, close the mouth of the blasphemer with your hand." In mathematics, according to Father Bogoyavlenski, "Stalin always stood at the foot of the class. Asked to do a sum in addition, he said the answer was one thousand. 'Only one thousand?' the teacher inquired. 'Well then a million!'" retorted generous Schoolboy Stalin. Berlin rumors last week that famed Professor Hermann Zondek, specialist in internal diseases, had left for Moscow "ostensibly to lecture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Schoolboy Stalin | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...faulty for such precision and it is too good to allow him to write something of his very own. Today occurs in Emerson 211 what the Vagabond feels is one of the finest lectures in College. He has heard it twice but he will go again today to hear Mr. Hersey speak on the "Paris of the Great Writers." There is the Revolution of Dickens, the Notre Dame of Victor Hugo, and the Montmartre of Du Maurier and the Vagabond must fight with DeFarge, pour lead with Quasimodo, and swagger along the boulevards with Taffy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/31/1932 | See Source »

...Joseph Reckford. whose father Joseph Reckendorfer was an original partner in Eagle Pencil Co. His tall nephew John King Reckford. inventor of the present method of painting the Venus, is vice president. Secretary and treasurer is his son Joseph Reckford. Nothing would so delight Joseph Reckford as to hear people say, ''Look, look, there goes the Pencil King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Pencils | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

...small for mature people to put blame on the young people. It is the mature and aged hard-shelled worldlings who make the protest. . . . The noblest young people brought up in a Christian way do not revolt from the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The fact is they hear too little of it and when they know it, they glory in it as Paul did. If this Methodist movement is the fruitage of the liberalism which is assuming more and more to manage Church affairs, the sooner we call a halt, the better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sanguine Hymnology (Cont'd) | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

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