Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some chaps insist on speaking English before 10 o'clock coffee; for them there is still much to do. Philhellenics (there are many) can meet at Harvard 1 to hear Professor Wade-Gery's views on the Greek Renaissance and Archaic Greek, History 106. And next door in Harvard 3, Professor Pipes pre-dates the "We will bury you" era with History 155, Russia to the end of the Eighteenth Century...
...through Harvard without seeing good old Schlesinger, big name you know." The blanket didn't know. "History 169, that's it." He leafed through the catalogue again, stopping at page 206. "American Intellectual History, 1789 to Present, MWF at 12, great, just great, can't wait to hear li'l Artie." Another notation...
...rabbit hole, banged his knee, limped home to Germany from a vacation in Italy, and appeared before a meeting of the Christian Democrat parliamentary group leaning on a cane. "Gentlemen," said the bunny-bugged Chancellor, "I did not fall on my head. Remember this in case you hear something else...
...their hearts on their fingernails, it is a truism that the pair of them-he all scorn for marriage, she all scorn for men-are so antagonistic for being so much alike. Fortunately, the dullards around them dream up one bright idea: they contrive that an eavesdropping Benedick shall hear that Beatrice absolutely dotes on him, that an ear-cocked Beatrice shall learn that Benedick is half dead for love...
...strictly business matters. Wrote Hector: "The agencies are long on judicial form and short on judicial substance." He advised transferring the CAB's policy-making functions to an executive department and setting up a court of experts with the powers of adjudication to decide major cases and hear appeals from administrative decisions. Concluding his valedictory, Hector warned that the basic policies of federal economic control "can no longer be left to a group of agencies each operating independently of the other and independent of any executive coordination or control...