Word: hearings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...long ago, people used to be reticent about mentioning the dread word cancer. But last week a citizen had only to twist a dial to hear it discussed at the top of radio's voice. Between plugs for coffee and candy bars, radio stations were ballyhooing, with every attention-getter in the book, the American Cancer Society's April drive...
...biggest crowd of the conference turned out to hear Princeton's R. P. Black-mur. Said...
...read man of him. While normal hearers tussled with life's "general uproar," Edison came to love the state of "insulation" which enabled him to "think out my problems" in peace. And freedom from "meaningless sounds" steadily directed his ears to certain minutiae of sound that he could hear very well...
Advice to Wooers. Edison couldn't hear the roaring of a train, but when two women who were traveling in it exchanged whispered secrets, he heard every word. He was deaf to the shrillest birdsong-unless it came over his particular amplifying system, the phonograph. He could hear the sharp dots & dashes of the telegraph transmitter, but he couldn't hear a word over Mr. Bell's primitive new telephone-until he took it in hand and helped make a more efficient instrument...
...attributed his financial success to the fact that he had never been able to hear what a businessman said, and had consequently always demanded exact, written contracts. He even liked to insist poetry, with World War II; and very few professionals succeeded. One who has succeeded is Randall Jarrell, a highly skilled technical sergeant in poetry before he became a sergeant in the Army Air Forces...