Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what to think of Harvard," Olivar said in reply to his opinion of Saturday's opponents. "At the beginning of the year I thought that Princeton would be best, with Harvard and Cornell next. . . . They have really the same personnel that beat us last year. . . . I was astounded to hear that they lost to Brown...
Ever since the Boston chapter of the Association of Master Barbers and Beauticians of America confirmed the disputed price raise a week ago, Cambridge barbers expected momentarily to hear from their representatives. Yesterday morning the representatives appeared and by 8 a.m. all Cambridge barbers had been notified that they were to keep in step with the Boston prices...
...affect not to care a fig whether the young Princess marries her airman or not, found themselves caught up in it: they professed themselves sated with it, but they could not escape it. Like polite weekend guests unwillingly trapped in a family quarrel, they could not choose but hear. As the week wore on, the young Princess fulfilled her royal functions, well-armed in the impassive mask of dignity that is royalty's required uniform. In tiara and strapless pink and white gown, she helped her sister the Queen entertain the visiting President of Portugal by sitting through...
...flawless inflections, is the American whose manner shows that he was raised by a French governess. The Amsterdam Concertgebouw, with its mellow strings and faintly ponderous sonority, is the sexagenarian with all his hair and a twinkle in his eye. Last week the U.S. got a chance to hear still another famed symphonic character, London's Philharmonia Orchestra, only ten years old. Its personality: blazing prodigy...
Pretty soon Cowpoke Clark is talking about a little vine-covered 'dobe on Prairie Dog Creek, but Jane won't hear of such "dirty, mangy, sod-bustin' livin'." She shoots straight: "Ah dream BIG." Clark fires back: "Ah dream SMAWWLLL." She takes up her quilt and walks. Enter the villain (Robert Ryan), who also dreams big. Ryan offers Jane the territory of Montana if she will let him assume her burden of quilt. She agrees, and he dresses her up like a real front-tier belle, but even as she is sprayed with Paris perfume, Jane...