Word: listened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...myself. Now the only noise that bothers me is the sparrows under the caves and in the ivy near my window. The sparrows start their lively twittering with the first rays of the (to me) invisible sun. It is usually more unpleasant than pleasant to wake up early and listen to them. I get to thinking I shouldn't have gone to bed so late--if I hadn't I could get up now, and to my duties haste. Or how I wasted all day before--except for the half hour of squash--that was certainly to the good...
...Frederick, Md. (see p. 52), anthropologists in Washington, chemists in Manhattan and Princeton. As usual, the biggest and best publicized gathering was that of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which had chosen Atlantic City for a meeting place, and where, if he wished, an ichthyologist could listen to an atom-smasher and a cosmologist to a breeder of fruit flies...
...have a valvular noise, but listen to me and you'll live to be hung. If your horse car is leaving, don't run for it; take the next...
...this vast external realm," observed the bearded, British-born old Associate Justice, "with important, complicated, delicate and manifold problems, the President alone has the power to speak or listen as a representative of the nation. He makes treaties with the advice and consent of the Senate; but he alone negotiates...
Upon the Supreme bench of the U. S. sits no man more learned in the law than the senior Associate Justice, bald Willis Van Devanter. Though liberal colleagues may disagree violently with his conservative opinions, they listen with profound respect in conference when, out of the experience of his full quarter-century on the Court, he expounds history, procedure, precedents. As elementary to him as the formula for water is to a master chemist, is the judicial principle that ignorance of the law is no excuse...