Word: listen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order that the noise of telegraph instruments which otherwise would annoy the speaker and audience may be avoided a silencer will be used at the Union. The sending key makes very little noise but the "sounder" a good deal. The latter is primarily for the receiving operators who listen to it and the sounders in New York will not disturb anyone in the Union. However, the sending operator must have a sounder in order to know what he is sending and whether all points are getting it. Accordingly, the usual sounder, which is an instrument about 5x3 inches in size...
...went to death willingly, but we were almost unavailingly sacrified. You drafted us in July and the enemy, killed us in September. You did this after four years of warfare and you are going to do it again." God has given us intelligence and a memory. Let us not listen again to this same advise of people who state that war is over. Before the Civil War Sumner declared that the world had seen its last great war. Now we have this same loose, dangerous international influence springing up against armaments. We do not like war, but must sometimes...
...vast majority of undergraduates the question is never put. There is need for a more practical side in the teaching of elementary economics courses which will place the facts of industrial unrest in the hands of the ordinary college student, and which will encourage him not only to listen to what others may have to say, but also to think for himself...
...German counter-revolution proves as bad as it looks today, possibly the Entente and the United States might have done well to listen to the advice of "French Imperialism." Then Germany would not have dared to have a monarchistic revolt, nor could she have so easily refused the just demands of the Allies by feigning trouble with the Sparticides. As to what the world shall do now, that is another question. We imagine it would be in the nature of a real job for England or the United States to put an army worthy of the name in Germany...
Moreover, the support which the Glee Club has already received this year and their extensive plans for a trip in the spring are proof that undergraduates are both willing to participate in and listen to good music. Never before has the Glee Club had so many members. They have shown courage in breaking away from old traditions, and, in offering better music, have set the pace for other colleges of the country...