Word: hear
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have just left off reading the protests of some of your subscribers concerning your abolishment of "The March of Time." As I am compelled to study in my room at this hour, I never have had the good fortune to hear this program. However, if it is as good as your magazine, I heartily join with these protesters...
Paris was on the verge of losing one of its chief showplaces. Tourists flock to the Opéra, ignorantly supposing that they will hear great performances. The building itself gave rise to the legend-the great colonnade, the marble-&-onyx staircase, the cellars awesomely described in The Phantom of the Opera. Performances at the Opéra are generally second-rate, the repertoire and staging oldfashioned. Senators and Deputies often get their discarded mistresses jobs dancing in the ballet, famed for its inferiority...
...Concentration Course which has now become his school's chief feature. Every day, first thing in the morning, his 31 students (aged 8 to 16) meet and concentrate together. Older boys get harder work than young ones, are graded more severely. In the beginning, concentrators peruse or hear read for three minutes a single paragraph, such as one dealing with the palindrome ("Madam, I'm Adam"). Then for seven minutes they mull over questions based on the paragraph, while their teachers endeavor to muddle them by conversing loudly. Later the class lasts longer-15 minutes for study...
...hear from me by Saturday, assume arrest by Pineville authorities...
Kirkland leisure has been well organized. Practically every night of the scholastic week there is some House function in progress. Chief among these is the Coffee Pot which is an undefined group meeting in the evening to hear some House member or some invited guest talk on any subject of general interest. There is no element of compulsion or of regularity in these meetings. Practically every field represented in the House has its enthusiasts incorporated in a group. There are the "Scientists", the "Englishmen", the "Economists", as well as, groups in the Classics and in History. Through all this runs...