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Word: hear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hurricanes, defending champions, smothered Hurlingham in a semifinal, 18 to 5. The day Santa Paula played the Hurricanes for the championship, thousands of excited Latin-Americans crowded the Avenida de Mayo in Buenos Aires to hear cabled accounts of the game relayed to them by an announcer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hurricanes v. Santa Paula | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

...Atlantic City last week one of the principal speakers was sharp-bearded Henry Latham Doherty, generalissimo of Cities Service Co. He scolded the oil industry for having branched into unrelated lines, said proper planning would have carried petroleum companies through the Depression. Some of his listeners marveled to hear such talk from Tycoon Doherty for if ever a company had diversified interests it is Cities Service Co. Besides being a complete oil organization, from gusher to fuel tank, it also controls natural and manufactured gas companies, power companies, street car lines. And if ever an individual had diversified interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Grand Hotel | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

...closed up, reopened in October 1928, when copper prices began to rise; last December it again closed. Since at the end of last year Seneca showed cash of only $5,115 and since it is one of the high-cost producers, coppermen were not surprised last week to hear that once again Seneca is in receivership. The company owns 2,465 acres of copper property in Keweenaw County, Mich., produced 4,857,000 lb. of copper last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Deals & Developments | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

...begin. First, The Costumes ("Item: a pair of infant's socks two inches long . . . Item: long trousers . . . Item: a tweed hat bought in England, green . . . Item: a coffin"). Then Characteristic Comments from: the nursery clock, the shoes, the fire, Shakespeare, Vivien, the desk, the prostitute, the heart. You hear Remarks on the Person of Mr. Jones from: the trained nurse ("it's a fine boy, not a blemish, God bless him"); other boys ("hey bricktop! hey carrots"); the snow ("centuries hence, it will be long ago''). You follow his career by reading a list of Inscriptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Men's Life Catalog* | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

Freshmen will be given an opportunity to hear leaders in undergraduate activities speak on nearly all phases of non-athletic extra-curricular activities tonight at 7.30 o'clock at the annual Phillips Brooks House reception for first year men. G. K. Martin '32, president of the Phillips Brooks House Association, will preside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN TO HEAR ACTIVITY HEADS AT P. B. H. TONIGHT | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

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