Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United-Carr Fastener Corp. (metal fasteners, buckles, clips) and chairman of the board of Reed & Barton Corp. (silverware). A founder of Boston's first Young Men's Republican Club, Weeks developed an early passion for politics. "When you sit around the breakfast table as a boy and hear politics discussed daily, you are bound to develop an interest," he says. He was elected mayor of Newton in 1929, announced at his inauguration: "I want to make it plain that it is going to be my endeavor to run this city as nearly as possible along business lines." Nosed...
Political Career: One day in 1940, Summerfield went to a Republican rally to hear Candidate Wendell Willkie. Convinced that the hostility of the audience was "a disgrace to the town," he got together with nine other Flint businessmen to organize a Republican campaign committee which gave Willkie a surprisingly large vote in Genesee County that November and helped him carry Michigan. From then on, Summerfield was wed to politics. Appointed finance director of Michigan's Republican state central committee in 1943, he proved so successful in getting contributions that other Republican leaders came to Michigan to find...
...ascent of one of these monster rockets will be something to see and hear. It will roar up vertically and turn its course toward the east to take advantage of the spin of the earth (1,038 m.p.h. at the equator). At the altitude of 24.9 miles and the speed of 5,256 m.p.h., the first section will separate and return to earth, braked by a steel-mesh parachute and downward-firing rockets. The second section will carry on, its motors lifting the rocket to 39.8 miles and boosting its speed to 14,364 m.p.h. Then it too will drop...
...Society," he wrote, "has used her ill ... and she cannot be expected to take much heed of its rights or wrongs." He thought, instead, that the charges of Urania Cottage should be "tempted to virtue" by kindness and by the chance to learn an occupation and good habits, to hear pleasant music and read not only elevating but even enjoyable books, to putter in gardens, and, finally, by the chance to sail, passage-paid by Miss Coutts, to Australia or some other country and into the arms of a pioneer husband...
When it came Denise's turn to hear the charges against her, she burst into tears and tried to explain. "I was too unhappy," she sobbed. "I had no money. I became Berger's mistress because he terrorized me. He was a madman. I wanted to escape but he came to find me and dragged me by the hair...