Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hear No Weevil...
...your Feb. 26 issue it is stated: In the nation's cotton exchanges last week it was quiet enough to hear a weevil nibbling a boll" Boll weevils have a long, hard bill, and they do not nibble a cotton boll. They puncture...
...tubby, baby-faced little man, smoking a long cigar, pattered into the dining room of the National Press Club one day last week, ate a lunch of roast beef, carrots & peas with obvious zest, and sat back to hear himself introduced. Then Price Stabilizer Michael Vincent Di Salle got to his feet-an act which added little to his height-and glanced over his shoulder. "I still can't get used to people getting up when I'm introduced," he began. "I always look behind me to see if a bishop has walked in." He paused professionally...
Often he marvels out loud at what has happened to him. "My father came to this country as a boy of 14. He came here alone and he found an opportunity i work and raise a family . . . I used to think it was corny to hear people make speeches about the Statue of Liberty and all that sort of thing. I never think of it as corny any more. This country has been good to my father and it has been good to me. I've never ceased to marvel that out of a good many people...
...mail today. They will be due at the Housing Office, 8 Weld Hall, on April 12, allowing freshmen three weeks (exclusive of spring recess) in which to make up their minds. During that period, they will be interviewed at the Houses of their choice and will have opportunities to hear representatives of Houses speak at the Union...