Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hear the bass drum boomin...
...fortunate enough to hear the 96-year-old William H. Jackson describe in a lecture how he made Colorado's famous Mountain of the Holy Cross picture in 1873 [TIME, May 31]. It's only a minor detail in your story, but I cannot resist pointing out that Mr. Jackson was not fortunate enough to clamber up the iced boulders with "primitive film." Somebody in his party had to haul glass plates up the mountain so that when the time came to make an exposure, all he had to do was to kneel in his tiny darkroom tent...
...intellectual Communism, of ambisextrous wingdings and nudist bridge-and-bathing parties, who could be surprised? Cuernavaca, in fact, has been called "a sunny place for shady people." Propertied residents, concerned over real-estate values, try to keep the gossip down by following the tolerant rule of see no evil, hear no evil. But recently, they have begun to hear rumors of an ugly thing new to Cuernavaca-blackmail. Stories of rich foreigners being framed on phony charges of misconduct and blackmailed for large sums soon spread to the capital. 40 miles away. Last week federal agents were in town, eagerly...
...begins to think that she has perhaps been sent back to the 19th century on a curative mission, to teach the healing values of fresh air and sunshine, but the doctor who attends her will not hear of such madness. Meanwhile, old parallels crop up between her life as Melly and her life as Milly...
Projects of a Mistress. Today's visitor to Versailles can "still see what she saw from her little balcony . . . the fountains of mermaids and cupids, the avenue of trees . . . We still hear the great clock on the parish church, the organ in the palace chapel . . . But we do not hear the King's hunt in the forest, the hounds and the horns . . . The rooms, so empty today, so cold with their northern light, were crammed to bursting point when she lived in them; crammed with people, animals and birds . . . furniture, stuffs, patterns . . . plans, sketches, maps, books . . . embroidery . . . letters...