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Word: listened (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were required to sit in the Wooster Chapel at the minimum of four days a week all through a school year and listen to nothing but Bach and Professor Gore's interpretations of same, you would certainly welcome a little of Gounod's "sexy" music or the "lull" of Tchaikovsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 7, 1947 | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...Terrible Tread." Saturday was the big day, the time for Dr. Townsend to point into the future. The delegates assembled again in Uline Arena to listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: The Crusaders | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...public (see above) would stir up another torrent of telegrams to the Senate and possibly win a few uncertain members to their side. Alben Barkley, Democratic leader, tried to dissuade them. "Sometimes pressures do more harm than good," he said. But the little band of desperate men would not listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Majority Rules | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...Toscanini took a garrulous lady friend to see The Telephone, which concerns a woman who spends so much time gabbling on the phone that she wouldn't listen to a proposal. Toscanini, in a waggish mood, got Menotti to substitute the friend's phone number for the phony number usually used in the opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Contralto on Broadway | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...publishing, but I want to be here. Last year I took History 1, Math 2, a couple of Philosophy courses, and got to know a few hundred people all over the College. I'm a settled married guy, but I'm eager as a kid about my reading. Listen, Sturdy, 'a voyage of discovery' isn't just words. I do huge amounts of outside reading, and find it thoroughly exciting. I'm getting to know my own University for the first time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/24/1947 | See Source »

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