Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duke institutions have yet become, she is respected by her husband's executors as his most personal representative left on earth. Yet they can feel their work is far more important than she is. For, as Board President Allen recalled at last week's ceremony: "Did I not hear him say that he expected to be looking down upon this work one thousand years hence...
...wheatfields in squadrons. Each soldier worm chooses his spear of wheat. Carefully he cuts it down, ignores the grain, devours the root, moves on to the next spear. An army of worms cuts a clean swath across any field it enters, then cuts another swath. A listener can hear the concerted champing of their mandibles...
What U. S. Negroes are eager to hear about Russia is the truth of the so-called "lynching incident" (the Negro was not lynched) in a Soviet factory at Kharkov. The story, as retold last week by Communist Patterson: "Lewis and Brown, two white Americans from the South who were working side by side in a large tractor plant in Kharkov with Robinson, an American Negro, objected to his eating in the same dining room with them. When brought to trial, their fellow-workers found them guilty of race discrimination and sentenced them to two years in prison or expulsion...
...beens have done before him, but with more public sympathy than most. he was beginning to try to "come back." Berlenbach was a deaf mute until he was 14. Then a kite he was flying brushed against a high tension wire and the shock made him able to hear and speak, though with a difficulty which was later to make people think him "punch drunk." In 1923, when he was a Manhattan taxidriver, Berlenbach learned to wrestle and won an Olympic wrestling championship. That same year, turned fighter, he developed a dangerous left hook, with it knocked out 22 opponents...
...credit (generally by payment of a fee). The Ohio State Department of Education, with a grant from the Legislature and time donated by local stations, sponsors the Ohio School of the Air, open to all listeners in. Last year schools in more than 335 Ohio towns were equipped to hear these programs...