Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knowledge, yet were the best of friends, is described in an undramatic fashion. If this and other accounts are slightly deficient in humor, they are nevertheless written without zeal. Perhaps Professor Palmer wholly appreciates the fate of those undergraduates of 30 years ago who year in, year out would listen to an empiricist like James tear down the frail web of idealism wrought by Royce or Palmer himself, only to witness the process reversed when they returned to the idealists...
Chaplin does not reject the sound-device because he does not think his voice will register. His objection is that cinema is essentially a pantomimic art. Says he: "Action is more generally understood than words. Like the Chinese symbolism it will mean different things according to its scenic connotation. Listen to a description of some unfamiliar object-an African wart hog, for example. Then look at a picture of the animal and see how surprised...
...reduce their office personnel, dispense with faithful, valued employes. The Exchange set about clarifying the entire procedure by which members may acquire securities and pay their employes a commission for reselling them. Last week the situation was explained to members and a capable Exchange committee made ready to listen to the case of any member desiring to engage in the practice politely but correctly called "Secondary Distribution." There are several conditions under which a member may wish to distribute secondarily. For example: a bank may have a large block of a certain stock acquired at high prices. The bank...
Barthelomo (shifting his cud of tobacco) : Listen son. Les' not get in an argument...
Gary, Ind., is essentially a steel city, its murky horizon is sliced jagged by towering smokestacks. An efficient Chamber of Commerce boasts to visitors that Gary has 515 acres of golf links, parks and playgrounds, a $1,000,000 community Church, a model public school plan. The visitor will listen politely. But he will always remember Gary as a grey city of steel and flame and smoke. At No. 1112 Broadway, Gary, a few blocks from the business district, is Central Trust & Savings Bank. Its location is in that part of Gary known as "across the tracks," the great flat...