Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regal robes, clapped on the Empire's sparkling crown, grasped his sceptre and seated himself on Brit ain's Throne in the House of Lords. Standing in a subway crush behind the bar of the House of Lords, eager M. P.'s squashed each other in their efforts to hear His Majesty read a speech written by Scot MacDonald: "My Lords, Mem bers of the House of Commons. . . . My Government is giving particularly close attention to . . . the approaching Disarmament Conference...
...good fortune which 32 years ago smiled on an obscure Hungarian dentist smiled again on his son last week, left him overnight an established orchestral conductor. The Hungarian dentist had been to hear famed Jeno Hubay, decided that he wanted a son named Jeno who would also play the violin. The son was born with a prodigious talent for music, at 4 was able to correct an experienced virtuoso for playing an F sharp instead of an F natural, at 7 was playing in public...
...grey-walled amphitheatre on Northwestern University's McKinlock (downtown Chicago) Campus last week a short, stocky, professor with a twinkle in his eye told how the deaf may hear through their fingers by means of an invention he had perfected. The profes- sor: Dr. Robert Harvey Gault, 57, for 22 years professor of psychology at Northwestern. The invention: the Gault Teletactor...
...realm of fiscal theory and practice. Last week Money Man Kemmerer arose to make a pronouncement upon a currency which few people would ever have thought needed his attention. Yet the U. S. public as well as the Advertising Club (Manhattan), his luncheon host, seemed glad to hear Dr. Kemmerer speak as follows of the U. S. Dollar...
...face, ranging rapidly about the stage at a half-crouch. All this Mr. Clark has done many times before with success. Bad press notices and the lack of any outstand ing talent other than Clark & McCullough put Here Goes the Bride into the past tense. But you will still hear dance bands playing some of the show's earful music : "Hello, My Lover, Goodbye," "Music in My Fingers...