Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special message on the World Court written and ready to send to the Senate, President Hoover was informed that at least 20 Senators would oppose ratification of the Root Formula so strenuously as to block any chance of action at this session. But the President was comforted to hear that a canvass of 2,036 U. S. newspapers revealed 1,357 in favor of the World Court. ¶ Early one morning Mrs. Hoover motored down to the Union Station, hid herself behind the concourse grill while Boris, the President's valet, went through the gate and down the platform...
...Harvard Medical School will continue its public lectures this winter; and once more many will have the opportunity to hear the authoritative word on common diseases. Helpful advice distributed gratis can dispel much of the misunderstanding which shrouds preventative treatment. The value of such advice and of general discussion of Hygiene cannot be overstressed...
...week at the Atlantic Hook & Ladder firehouse there were three main schools of thought. Spokesman for the Travis faction said, somewhat erroneously: "Now the name of these diggings was Travisville in the beginning. That's his story anyway. Travis was an old ship captain and from what I hear he was some boy. Let's stick to the old name of Travisville, but let's cut off the ville. That sounds too much like a hick place. . . . Imagine going into some of them big Manhattan department stores to buy and giving your home address as Linoleumville...
Over the round, bald head of Sportswriter Grantland Rice hovers the crown of All-American arbiter that was worn by the late great Walter Camp. But other U. S. sportswriters did not wait to hear the selections over which he was mulling for Collier's magazine last week in Chicago. They chose their own 1930 All-American football teams. Their consensus was as follows...
...York, Matthew Richner, 11, confessed to having six times set fire to his school. Said he: "It will do no good to send me away, because I'll set fire to any place you send me. I like to see it burn and hear the engines...