Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Practical-minded Professor Kelly began on the ground. He used an electrical inter phone and radio transmitter to listen to scores of teacher-pupil conversations in the air. He analyzed the results and found no instruction "which might be said to be both complete and correct." Four instructors used 500 technical terms, of which only 70 were common to all four. One used 265 terms which were never used by the other three. Among them, they used 14 different expressions to instruct students to increase and 20 to reduce power, 33 for turns, 18 for describing control motions...
...radio voice crackled in French ears: "Listen to the thunder of the guns and planes. Do you hear, M. Laval?" The voice was reading a letter broadcast to M. Laval from General Henri Giraud in Algiers. Cried the voice: "You say we are traitors. But it is we who will save France...
...will tell me, of course, that Morgan was bigger news than Benet, and that a newsmagazine prints the news. Yet I think that America and American journalism would do itself proud if it would listen now & then to its poets...
Joseph Stalin said five weeks ago that the Russians had killed 4,000,000 Germans. Adolf Hitler last fortnight put his dead at 542,000. What was the truth? Citizens of the democracies could still read and listen to what both sides said, and draw their own conclusions. One conclusion has been that you cannot always trust army communiqués-even from your own army...
...that it will never come back. When we want to know the time we do not consult the newspaper. We ring up a charming young lady called 'Time.' Shall we be able, when things get going again, to dial 'News' and shall we not listen then to a summary of what has been happening in the last two or three hours? It seems to me a much more possible and much more reasonable way of getting the news than our despairing attempts of buying three or four newspapers to find out what is being concealed from...