Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Students packed the large lounge of Harkness Commons yesterday to hear Her Royal Highness Princess Alice of Greece discuss "The Origin of Monastic Orders in Eastern and Western Churches" at the Law School Coffee Hour...
...ever gets rolling again, the chances are that the most formidable Red-held mountains will have to be bypassed and isolated. Storming them would be bloody and purposeless. On cold, clear nights, you can hear the beaver-busy Communists digging at the frozen earth from end to end of the front...
...Manhattan, white-haired Mrs. Evyleen Cronin, 59, Tallulah Banlchead's onetime secretary, who was charged with kiting $4,284 worth of checks and convicted of second-degree grand larceny (TIME, Dec. 24), came into court to hear her sentence: indefinite probation, because of her age and health, instead of a possible six-year prison term. It was fair enough, said Plaintiff Tallulah: "I did my duty as a citizen, the jury did its duty, and now I'm sure the judge has done his. You get so mad you could spit, as they say-you'd like...
...experience," says Dr. Ridley, "to hear a cataract patient remark at a post-operative dressing, 'I can see the faces of all you gentlemen quite clearly.' " U.S. eye specialists are amazed by the news from London. If the plastic lenses stand up for five years without trouble, they say, it will be the greatest advance in cataract treatment since the invention of eyeglasses...
Omen. In Coopersville, Mich., when the local chamber of commerce gathered for lunch to hear two Office of Price Stabilization officials discuss price ceilings, part of the restaurant ceiling fell...