Word: hearkening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undergraduates who want to forget all about Saturday afternoon and hearken back to the previous week will have their chance at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Main Common Room of the Union, where complete movies of the Columbia game will be shown. Backfield Coach Davy Nelson will supply running commentary...
...that hideous novelty. It was difficult not to chance on Joyce's wavelength when one was tuning in to the English stations, and there was an arresting quality about his voice which made it a sacrifice not to go on listening. ... It seemed as if one had better hearken and take warning, when he suggested that the destiny of the people he had left in England was death, and the destiny of his new masters in Germany life and conquest, and that, therefore, his listeners had better change sides and submit. This was often terrible to hear...
Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime, Hearken to my joyful tidings Of the golden future time...
...George S. Patton Jr., in his moment of need, had put aside his pearl-handled pistols, taken up a pen, and appealed to a Higher Authority. Wrote he: "Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech Thee . . . to restrain these immoderate rains. . .. Grant us fair weather for battle. Graciously hearken to us as soldiers who call upon Thee that, armed with Thy power, we may advance from victory to victory . . . and establish Thy justice among men and nations. Amen...
...been suggested by the Battalion idea-man, and bride-groom-to-be, Jock Brunner. Jock proposes that when the long twilight of senility and retirement descends upon our new effervescent lives and we look not to the future, but back upon our glorious past, we will, as is customary, hearken back to the days we spent here at Harvard. In any relationship in which a group of human beings live together for so long a period as a year there are bound to be many friendships started. These friendships will be nipped in the bud by sea billets...