Word: listened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been suggested, for the benefit of those who listen to the game, "that they make a simple gridiron chart on paper beforehand, so that every detail of the progress of the ball and tactics of the players may be followed through out the game...
...Admiral William Sowden Sims, retired, has been a stormy petrel. He possibly got his vigorous way of speaking from President Roosevelt, whom he served as naval aide from 1907 to 1909. But earlier than that he had protested to Mr. Roosevelt (in 1902) because his superior officers would not listen to him as he cried: "The protection and armament of even our most recent battleships are glaringly inferior to those of our possible enemies. . . . One or more of our ships would suffer humiliating defeat at the hands of an equal number of ene-of the Torpedo-Boat Flotilla...
...without reason. Within a few days he knew that he must present his report to the Cabinet Council, decide whether to praise or damn his handiwork before the Chamber and prepare to justify his negotiations before the national convention of the Radical Party at Nice. He had need to listen and to reflect. Meanwhile, three interesting statements were made by others...
...headlands and creep under beds. Uncle's ghost marches in the alumni parade, sheep are slaughtered, four people die quite violently. A very devil of an uncle, yet you and the professor can never be sure it is he who is responsible, let alone how to make him listen to reason. Do not read this book tonight if you must catch an early train in the morning. It makes The Bat (famed play by Mrs. Rinehart) seem a very domestic young chiropter...
...faced individuals who know all about golf listened last week while the Western Open Golf championship was being discussed in the soda fountains of their country clubs. Their eyes bulged with impatience, but they listened, for they wanted their own dicta to be final. When the others, at length, perceived their plight and fell silent, these informed ones wiped their mouths with the backs of their hands. Out of the fullness of their knowledge, in voices thickened by many draughts of Seltzer-water and orange juice, they spoke. "That's all right," they said, "but let me tell...