Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stanton-Lazarsfeld program analyzer is a simple device. Subjects sit in comfortable chairs, hold a pair of push buttons in their hands, and listen to a pro gram. When they like what they hear, they push the right-hand button. When they don't like it, they push the left button. Each button is electrically connected with a pen which draws a continuous line on a moving paper tape pulled under it at a constant speed of approximately one inch every five seconds. When a button is pressed, an electric magnet jogs the pen a quarter of an inch...
...graduate schools, and those enrolled only for the first session of the Summer Term, are invited to attend the opening Convocation in Sanders Theatre on Tuesday evening, July 30, at 8 o'clock. The principal speaker will be President James Bryant Conant. Those not accommodated in Sanders Theatre may listen to the proceedings in the New Lecture Hall by means of the public address system...
...Another war or two will do it, if this one fails. But if, as Wells believes, Homo Tewler is a bundle of terribly conditioned reflexes, then he is redeemable. First however, he must discard his mental and social shackles, do the two things he is conditioned never to do: listen to reason and quit being careful. The same instruments, Wells argues, which have made Tewlers what they are—and the world what it is—can also make the world one community for the teaching, healing saving of Homo Tewler—for the establishment, indeed, of the Wellsian World State towards which...
Kiddies of Caracas used to listen on the radio with bated breath to "Tío Timoteo" (Uncle Tim), wondering how he knew that little Juan Bimba's birthday present was under the sofa and that Babita was not eating enough cereal. He knew, of course, because fond parents wrote in and asked...
Saturday night at Tom Benton's became a musical institution. His son, T. P. (for Thomas Piacenza) Benton, took up the recorder. Benton put thumb tacks in the hammers of his piano to give it the proper twang. Friends and musicians began to come around to listen, laugh and join in-among them Singers Frank Luther and Carson Robison, Composers Henry Cowell and Carl Ruggles...