Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe although all were frightened by the bogey of "Russian dumping," a bogey which made cooperation seem futile. Then he saw his plan verge on failure when the German delegation marched stubbornly back to Berlin. In Paris last month he was told that the Germans were ready to hear from him again. A compromise was soon reached...
Those undergraduates who once underwent the strain of "college boards" will undoubtedly be interested to hear that these examinations have been scrutinized by the Department of Personnel Study and grave doubts cast as to their efficacy. Albert B. Crawford, Director of the Department, comments on them in his recent report to the President, and points out that there is a remarkably low degree of correlation between college board examination grades and the records in Freshman year. He emphasizes the fact that predicted scores, or "bogeys", based on various school and entrance records, are really a more accurate method of determining...
...tired to sleep. There was a time so I am told He ran away with Grandpa Cole, He smashed the buggy on the pole, But that was long ago. Now the tired old horse is happy in his way, For he dreams he still can hear his master say, "Turn tid-di-ly um bum, Giddap!" Composer Woodin has six grandchildren for whom he has built a playroom on the top floor of his Manhattan penthouse. He tries out his children's songs on them, finds them frank critics. Concerning his grown-up music and its performance, Composer Woodin...
...join him. The T. A. T.-Western fleet comprises 36 radio-equipped planes. Radioman Hoover often listens to pilots exchanging messages 2,200 mi. distant as they fly between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Once in the quiet hours after midnight he tuned in just in time to hear the pilots of two mail planes swapping bawdy stories as they tore through the darkness...
During the War a crowd of patriots was gathered in old Madison Square Garden to hear the president of Princeton University, President Woodrow Wilson's successor in that office, speak. The crowd saw a benign, slightly-built man walk on the platform, heard him say drowsily: ''I am for peace at any price." They clambered to their feet, booed. Then they heard him add brightly: "But in this case the price of peace is war!" They cheered, cheered, cheered...