Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Part of being nice is being simple. Truman recalls a colleague who told a patient: "You have an area of stringy shadows from your hilar region extending to the base, and I can hear a few crackles in your chest." Says Truman: "Actually, 'Aba-ca-dav-snaba-pooh' would have conveyed as much meaning to the patient [who had a mild bronchopneumonia...
Miss Emerson "was shocked to hear this from the 'New York Times," and spent her few minutes suggesting that the superior technical skill in Hollywood be used to make TV the "finest entertaining medium ever conceived...
There appears to be a small sort of religious revival going on at Harvard. Religious speakers, with a decorous but unquestionably proselytizing air about them, have been appearing more frequently in the past two years, and they have been bolstered by "get-acquainted" meetings in the Houses. Now we hear the first word of a committee headed by Provost Buck that has been studying the problem of religion at Harvard. Though the committee has not yet issued its report, it has apparently looked with favor on a plan to grace the College with two new officers: a Chaplain, to mingle...
...Repetition is good," Tom Dorgan explained to the Committee on Education. "You don't get it the first time, then you hear it again." His favorite refrain was: "I'll repeat that." "Until you believe it," he might have added...
...first quarterly report to the nation last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson measured the muscles of America's husky defense effort. No one was surprised at the punch which has already been restored to U.S. military power, but many consumers were startled to hear an unexpected bit of good news. Civilian output will be higher than the most optimistic guesses of a few months ago. Wilson's estimates