Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Merriam in Fuel and Management. His bark is worse than his bite. As long as your old man uses Standard Oil, you're in. Then there is Arthur Hanson. He'll yell and yell and yell, and he'll tell you a tall one about a Peanut Wagon. Well, listen to him, because you'll soon find that you really are learning a lot of accounting. All you have to do is to get a Dist. in his course is use "plain common sense." Then there will be Mr. Bliss and his slide ruling partners, McNeil and Bingham. Statistics will...
...After Ribbentrop's departure I was able to observe the effect of his remarks, suitably edited and sweetened, as they filtered down the line to lesser lights. For a week, I was the only Allied journalist in town. Unmolested, though carefully watched, I could walk the streets, listen to the German soldiers in bars and cafes, converse with people who, though on the Axis side, still seemed anxious to explain why they did what they...
...great U.S. wheat belt, farmers listen to "Stake" almost as anxiously as to the weather man. Last week Professor Elvin C. Stakman, famed University of Minnesota plant pathologist, gave them something to be anxious about. "No. 56," the dread wheat rust, is rising to epidemic proportions. Stake and his boys were making some laboratory progress against it; they were sure they would eventually master No. 56, as they had mastered many another disease. But the outbreak once more confirmed a Stakman theory: the news on the fungus front is always...
...Kate's katydidoes were a "sporting event" to some. One man listened in a saloon where book was made on how long she could keep it up. It was "almost hypnotic and compulsive." Said a woman listener: "We never left her that day. We stood by her side. I didn't go out all day, except to go shopping. Even then I was anxious to get back and listen. Of course, my sister was holding down the post in the meantime and could tell me what had happened...
...shabby room behind the mellowed walls of Rome's Convent of the Little Company of Mary, the 80-year-old philosopher spoke sparingly last week of things beyond the noise of war. George Santayana's fame as a poet, philosopher, novelist (The Last Puritan) made the newsmen listen to him respectfully. The old philosopher's aloof attitude was bound to irritate men who were very near to war. But his words were worth listening...