Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pupil proceeds at his own pace, whether doing work normal for his age or work one or two years in advance. But the McCormicks have added some special features. All children take, judo and ballet lessons to develop muscular control. They have visited the College of Puget Sound to hear a lecture on satellites, each Tuesday afternoon play host to a foreign student from the college who tells them about his country. At four, the children begin conversational Spanish, at six French, at eight German...
Many reluctant record buyers believe that chamber music is colorless and dull, hear only the scraping of strings. But often there are no strings attached, as in Rossini's racy, unfailingly amusing Quartets for Woodwinds (Period). Many listeners have come to realize that even string works-Schubert's Death and the Maiden, Beethoven's last quartets-can be as poignant as any symphony. In some cases, record buyers have bitten hard at chamber music, e.g., the Westminster version of Schubert's lusciously Viennese "Trout" Quintet sold 100,000 copies in five years and is still going...
Roosevelt did not eat at the large common dining halls in college. For the freshman year, prep school graduates generally ate at their own special tables in Cambridge eating houses. "Our table, you will be glad to hear, began at lunch yesterday," he wrote to his mother, "and the crowd is a very nice one and next to the table of some of the other Grotonians...
University scientists have developed a new amplifier which may extend the range of radio telescopes 10 times farther out in space, it was announced yesterday. This device, developed in the Gordon McKay Laboratory of Applied Science, may enable men to "hear" the radiation from hydrogen clouds in galaxies beyond the range of any present instruments...
...hand, whether it were reading, writing, listening, or boxing. Thus he would read by himself in a room half-filled with noisy students without having his attention distracted even for an instant; indeed, he would make no answer to questions addressed directly to him, and did not seem to hear them...