Word: listened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rainy night last month William Zielsdorf, a serious little German who keeps a nursery in McLough, Kans. settled down to listen to the radio. Soothed by the music and the rich, fruity tones of announcers, William Zielsdorf dozed. Suddenly he sat bolt upright. An exciting voice had just said...
...been flayed unfairly by meticulous and stodgy critics. They laugh harshly at its bad grammar and with academic glee point out the weaknesses of phrasing. Yet, considering the value of the almanac for of the colonists, one must deafen himself to the cries of the literary know-alls and listen only to the appeals of practicality and amusement that come from social historians. Once Moses Coit Tyler wrote: "No one who would penetrate to the core of early American literature, and would read in it the secret history of the people in whose minds it took root...
...shift of other radio programs on the NBC Blue Network made available an earlier period (8:30 p.m. E. S. T.). To Reader Nicely and others who came in for the tail-end of its first broadcast over NBC, the MARCH OF TIME extends an invitation henceforth to listen in every Thursday...
...yearly U. S. automobile accidents occur to experienced male drivers (over 25) going straight in passenger cars in good condition on dry roads in dear daylight. The National Safety Council in Accident Facts (1937 edition) says that two-thirds of the automobile deaths by accident occur by night; listen...
...Meanwhile from a prime U.S. capitalist came a remark reminiscent of Andrew Mellon's famed quip early in 1929 that "gentlemen prefer bonds." Said Chairman Ernest Tener Weir of National Steel Corp.: "I think that the present situation can be made very serious unless people stock, look and listen...