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Word: listen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House the Wet attack centred on Messrs. Upshaw of Georgia and Blanton of Texas. Congressman Tydings of Maryland declared: "Anyone who dares to say anything against the 18th Amendment is called un-American or a hypocrite. As a matter of fact the prohibition law is unChristian. Listen to what St. Paul said: 'If righteousness shall come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Fireworks | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...What we want to find out is the facts. But the attorneys say we can't listen to them. They shout: 'Don't answer: I object,' before a question is half asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Foreman Conant | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...Riverbank Court. Memorial Drive, I am going to lean back complacently in my chair at 1 o'clock and listen to two greater vagabonds than I, expound principles on which my life is based. Glenn Frank has wandered from Wisconsin to talk on "The Revolt Against Education" and Sir John Adams has strayed across the Atlantic to give his ideas on "The Now Individualism in Education." They are both charter members of the famous order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 3/20/1926 | See Source »

...first of two opportunities to sing or listen to portions of Brahms' "Requiem" will be offered this evening at 7.30 o'clock in the Browne and Nichols Building of Radcliffe College. The second meeting for the same purpose will be held Wednesday evening, March 25. Both are special meetings in a series accompanying the Graduate School of Education courses in the Teaching of Music. They are designed especially for those who intend to hear the performance of the "Requiem" by the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Harvard Glee Club with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Mr. Koussevitsky...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOOL OF EDUCATION TO GIVE BRAHMS' REQUIEM | 3/17/1926 | See Source »

...third journey (1915) he went to propose to the belligerents not only that they should end the War, but that in doing so arrangements should be made for permanent peace. Germany would not listen, France was wary, England thought the time was not opportune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION, FICTION: House Papers | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

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