Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...size is Colby College (Waterville, Maine) with 600 students and some 3,000 alumni. Colbyites young and old were nonetheless proud and thrilled last week as they gathered on the campus at Waterville, in alumni meetings in eight cities from Maine to California, in homes where they could listen to a broadcast of their alma mater's annual football rally, Colby Night. They hoped Colby would beat the University of Maine next day (it lost, 19 to 7). But Colby Night celebrated a greater event: the first sizable gift to a campaign to rare $3,000.000. The gift...
...were that man there," he roared, pointing to a heckler, "I would be ashamed of the silly expression on my face. . . . Now you just listen to me and you'll improve. If you'll only listen to yourselves you'll deteriorate...
...Tavern. Many a schoolboy knows of the Battle of Cedar Creek, when Sheridan, supposedly riding hard from Winchester, "20 miles away," rallied his men and turned a rout into victory. Sheridan's famed gallop, says Author Hergesheimer, has been grossly exaggerated: actually he went very slowly, stopping to listen, probably walked his horse a good part...
...General Mitchell and "an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury." In Washington the Department of Justice had admitted approving this deal, insisted the procedure was customary. Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills had denied knowing anything about it. Judge Wilkerson had upset the plans by declaring: "The court will listen to recommendations, but it is utterly impossible to bargain with a Federal court." Then he had allowed frightened Capone to change his plea to not guilty, had sought?and failed ?to have a grand jury indict him under the Jones ("5 & 10") Law for violation of the Volstead...
Buzzing about the French Premier as he prepared to sail was Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Hymans. He was said to be urging M. Laval to listen sympathetically when Mr. Hoover asks France to join in a worldwide economy program of lessened armaments. This, from the French point of view, is a "sacrifice of security" which few Frenchmen are prepared to make. But Belgium, less militaristic than France, is anxious to economize on cannon...