Word: listen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Dr. Wayman mismanaged the University, that he claimed academic degrees which were not rightly his. But when he tried to answer the charges, Dr. Shields would not yield the floor. Finally the Dean was allowed to speak, and then he found that most of the delegates would not listen to him. He therefore left the convention and started another at the Hotel Tourraine...
Landing from the Berengaria last week, Merlin H. Aylesworth, head of National Broadcasting Co., predicted that within six months U. S. citizens could readily listen in on British radio programs and that British citizens could readily pick up U. S. broadcasts. He predicted that radio Would become a great national force, might even lead to the establishment of an international language. British and French radio at present, however, he described as "formative." The British radio owner, for instance, has no loud speaker, no electric sets, and no choice of programs-a standard program being furnished by the government. Forward-looking...
...just one of the boys here.We'll put him to work and hope he likes it. . . ." Convict Sinclair will share "his 8-by-6 cell with another prisoner. He will rise at 5:30 A. M.; retire at 9 P. M. For amusement he may read books, listen to the radio. It will be hot in this jail during the summer. If all goes well for him, Sinclair will be free...
...attended the University. Then, aged 20. he met a wise old man, Rimsky-Korsakov, one of the great five who had founded the Russian National School of Music. Rimsky, steeped in the folklore of his country, taught the youth to put his ear to the ground, to listen to the earth sounds of Muscovy...
...Chinese sage of Rabelais-scholarly, ruminative, hardly Rabelaisian. France sought to unroll this innocuous picture before Argentine audiences (in 1909). But the Bishops of Buenos Aires, having heard of Rabelais' earthy humor, and having heard of the impious Anatole France, denounced them both. The pious dared not listen to the dean of the Academic. "There was not a soul in the boxes and not one woman in the house. In all, three hundred baldpates. It was funereal." The lecture tour was salvaged by substituting a laudatory address on South America. The original lectures now appear in book form...