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Word: hear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave in to machine in yet another sphere when the Memorial Church Bell was placed under automatic control after some 311 years of human manipulation. Then Arnold J. Toynbee came to talk and 5,000 people came to hear. A near-riot ensued when most of them couldn't get into Sanders Theatre, but a last minute appeal to reason by Dean Bundy carried more force than that mustered by the Cambridge Police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UMass' Upset Victory, No Drinking Rule, Nobel Award to Scientists Highlight Term | 2/2/1955 | See Source »

...first formal test. Lautier, the first Negro reporter on a daily newspaper to be admitted to the congressional press galleries (TIME. March 31, 1947), applied for club membership. The club, he reasoned, is not only a social institution but a place where newsmen come to exchange information, hear speakers at club luncheons, and meet sources. Many a newsman agreed with Lautier. and he had no trouble finding as sponsors Columnists Drew Pearson and Marquis Childs and U.P. Correspondent Lee (Breakthrough on the Color Front} Nichols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Color Bar | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

Composer Villa-Lobos cares not the flick of a grace note if some of his music sounds flimsy. "Better that people should hear bad Villa-Lobos than good somebody else," is his motto. When told that a theme of his sounds like something else, it is news (but not bad news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tropical Thunderstorm | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...pastor's wife in the nude; another time he strolled into the drawing room wearing only a shirt. A year later, Gauguin took off for Paris with one child, leaving his wife and the other children behind. "When my sabots echo on the granite," he said, "I hear the sound, dull and strong, that I'm looking for in painting." Thanks to the generous mistress of a Breton pension, Gauguin painted in peace on a full belly. Restlessly driven back to Paris and semi-starvation, the man who had once speculated so brilliantly on the stock exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Saga of a Stockbroker | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...Gauguin believed that he would soon be rich, that he and his wife and children would be reunited, and that he would again be the slippered Papa at the family hearth. The Walter Mittys of this world dream of becoming Paul Gauguins; they will be astonished to hear how the Gauguins dream of becoming Walter Mittys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Saga of a Stockbroker | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

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