Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loaded with a blank cartridge) poked through five holes in a burlap screen 25 ft. away. "Ready!" said the officer in charge to his men as the sun edged red above the rugged Wasatch mountains; then, seconds later, softly, so that the man in the chair would not hear him, "Fire...
Physicians attending the joint annual meeting of the British and Canadian Medical Associations in Toronto last week hardly expected to hear a lecture on miracles, and certainly not one from a fellow scientist. But Dr. John R. Brobeck, 41, professor of physiology at the University of Pennsylvania, surprised a group of them at a breakfast session with a discussion of the subject that turned out to be the sensation of the convention...
...Many scientists have become a lot less positive about the prerogatives of science and the scientific method," said Dr. Brobeck (who classifies himself as an "evangelical Protestant like Billy Graham"). "More and more we hear talk about the limitations of science. But science is not the only way to get information. Many fields of human experience are not susceptible to scientific analysis...
...reporters who wanted to hear more, Dr. Brobeck added: "Most scientists don't accept miracles because they are not Christians. But the thoughtful scientist would not say that miracles are impossible, only improbable. Most scientists are not Christians, but not because they're scientists. Most businessmen or most reporters are not Christians either; in fact, most people are not Christians...
After listening for hours to Carter eloquently describe a project to make Fort Worth a seaport by dredging the often-dry Trinity River the 350 miles from Fort Worth to the Gulf of Mexico, his good friend Will Rogers gestured for silence and whispered: "Listen! I hear those seagulls now." Once Carter emerged from an all-afternoon session with President Franklin Roosevelt and announced triumphantly: "I got my five feet." Carter had talked F.D.R. into adding five feet on to the Government's proposed mile-long Convair plant, because Tulsa was about to get an aircraft plant a mile...