Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with shocking news; when the Senator had not awakened by 11:30 that morning, his secretary Arthur W. Springer went in to call him. Senator Morrow was asleep but breathing with great difficulty. Thoroughly alarmed Secretary Springer summoned three doctors. A short time later the country was shocked to hear that Death had come?kindlier in this case than usual? at 1:52 p. m. to kindly Dwight Whitney Morrow, in his sleep, of cerebral hemorrhage...
...often hear, or used to hear, the expression, 'He whistled to keep his courage up.' That's just it, except that there's more to the crude act of whistling than artificial affirmation of bravery...
Today the Vagabond hopes to set at rest all these questionings. He is going to Harvard 3 at 11 o'clock to hear Professor McIlwain on the background of the English Constitution. Of course all his reservations can not be answered, but Professor MeIlwain is, like Kipling's wrecked seaman a "man of infinite resource and sagacity," and he will do much to explain the beginnings and development...
...provisionally accepted men will meet tonight in Phillips Brooks House at 7.30 o'clock to hear G. W. Lewis '32, President of the Clubs, who will outline the methods of handling rehearsals and concerts. He will also tell what is expected of those who have been provisionally accepted...
...newly dug grave, or the precise circumference of a huntsman's swollen ankle. But he has compensated for this rather crass precision by developing an excellent and timely theory to the effect that the world is too much with us. And so the Vagabond will go today to hear Sholley, Keats, and Wordsworth as they troop across the platform, and to see them bow gracefully, when they pass Professor Lowes...