Word: listen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some critics suggest that the Revolutionary Forces are only corner loafers, quite satisfied with things as they are, who refuse to listen to De Valera or Griffith or any one else. Not that De Valera seems much inclined to stop them. His statements to a correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" are just the opposite. "If the army could save the nation from the calamities bound to follow the acceptance of the treaty I think it justifiable for them to use their strength to that end." Indeed as a last resort "the army may prevent elections which are only the blinds...
...more or less competent magazine and newspaper articles that they have grown fairly well inured to such investigational surveys. Yet when a man appears who shows by his knowledge that he is really justified in talking about them, they can still find the time and the interest to listen to him. The latest arrival in this field is Mr. John Palmer Gavit of the New York Evening Post; and if the first of his series of articles now being published in that paper is any criterion he should command attention for some period to come...
...lamentably true that a large proportion of American homes send to the preparatory schools, and a large proportion of preparatory schools send on to the colleges, boys who cannot see what they look at and cannot listen to what they hear; who have no background of general information against which to place what they do see and hear; who do not know how to work or read or study or think; who cannot express themselves with precision or confidence in speech or writing; to whom a library or other collection of the treasures of human knowledge and experience are places...
...rugby team is quite unlikely to lay aside his Dunhill and give up his mug of ale till a week or so before the Oxford game, if at all. If rugby developed into a game where the strictest of training was necessary, where the player had to learn signals, listen to long talks on how to play, and practice day after day without scrimmage, he would not consider it fun or sport in the true sense of the word. He would consider it a drudge, would give up the whole thing, and go out for some other sport. The track...
...chance that we might reach out and include the British Isles. This seemed altogether to much to many who had not followed the wonderful scientific perfection to which the amateur had developed his short wave apparatus. But the amateur organization appropriated $1000 and sent the most skillful listener living. Mr. Paul F. Godley, one of their number to England last November, with the most sensitive apparatus possible to get together. Mr. Godley searched for a promising location, and finally located at the little town of Ardrossan, in Scotland, just below Glasgow. Here he erected his antennae and apparatus...