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Word: listened (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason for his disobedience, Father Feeney said last night, was a "conscience difficulty which Father McEloney will not listen...

Author: By Brenton WELLING Jr., | Title: Father Feeney Is Dismissed From Jesuit Order by Rome | 10/29/1949 | See Source »

...entirely through with the case yet. He still had to cast his melancholy eyes over briefs, listen to motions and arguments, hand out the sentences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Presence of Evil | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...books were only good for doorstops. Then I read one and found it habit forming. Now I read all the time. Same with music. I still like pop tunes but I'm getting to be a longhair too. A few years ago I thought anybody who liked to listen to symphonies wore long underwear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hands Across the Sea | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...Washington, St. Louis, Cincinnati and a dozen other cities, buses and streetcars have been wired for sound. (Moaned a Washington bus rider: "Wasn't it Hitler who tried to drive the Austrian chancellor crazy by forcing him to listen to the radio?") In many places, including Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh and southern New England, grocery stores were blaring music and commercials. (Stanley Joseloff, president of Storecast Corp. of America, said happily: "It's radio plus. We get a 100% listening audience at the point of sale because everyone who's there has to hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: No Hiding Place | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...carry along their picture, may be a little harder to chew. It raps out its accompaniment to "A Touch's" nervous action at a stacatto 32-frames to the second; it is a raucous, brash, nervous score, which occasionally edges onto the screen and points to itself and says "listen to me." This again makes the person with the Hollywood conditioned eye-car very uncomfortable. But Van Slyck's music is as superior to the sheep-grazing and grand-entrance-of-the-U.S.-Cavalry background score as the Ivy picture's subtle photography is to the antiseptic reproduction...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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