Word: listen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Petlura was responsible. Even Ukrainian officers said so. His soldiers killed our people, shouting his name. One regiment had a band and it played while knives fell on the heads of innocent babies. Petlura could have stopped it, but he wouldn't listen to our pleas...
...complacent, uninterested and guided by other lights than the bright flame of intellectual curiosity. Where it is found there also one may find men to whom books are more than, required texts: men who have come together, almost in the ancient Greek manner, in order that they may listen to one possessed of an innate spark which stimulates them to pursue further the subject under discussion. No perfection of the technical details of the educational system, can recompense for an absence of this evanescent quality; and no accumulation of degrees transform a great scholar to a great teacher...
...girls who goes motoring in the country with the family on Sunday, helps scatter papers and tin cans around, sets the phonograph going and assails the surrounding haunts of Nature with its clamor. She knows how futile canned music can be when one may listen to a lark...
...youth, learning all, is distraught with her deceit. Furious at the collapse of his true love she rips off her wedding dress and flees the gathering, just as the guest of honor a stuffy, haughty prince, sweeps majestically upon the scene. This may sound pretty palpitating, but one must listen to a lot of sluggish stuff before the climax...
...much good counsel spread abroad; the College will belong to the Freshmen for this fleeting period and it is to be hoped that afterwards the Freshmen will realize that in a certain manner they belong to the College and the traditions for which it stands. Each new student will listen to words of much wisdom; he will hear many speeches; it is possible that he will grow very tired of hearing speeches. In the end, however, he will have learned--as far as it is possible to learn without actual experience--What Harvard expects...