Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bare bedroom on the first floor of her parents' old frame house. She rarely emerged, often locked the door, kept frisky little Annabelle well hidden from neighbors' prying eyes. Sometimes at night Addie Belle's mother would tiptoe across the sticky linoleum floor and listen at Addie Belle's bed. The sleeping girl-mother babbled long monologues in gibberish...
Many a parent and educator suspects that children's radio programs overexcite their youthful audiences. Parent John James DeBoer, whose one child is too young to listen to radio, investigated the suspicion. He questioned 738 grammar-school children, had 486 radio-listening moppets watched, used a "photopolygraph" (modified lie detector) on 148 to measure respiration, blood pressure, pulse, electrical resistance of skin...
...Thorndike says he usually doesn't listen to what the player says he usually doesn't list to what the players says about how he feels. "I make muscle and ligament function tests," he declared. "They tell the truth." Has a boy a serious enough injury to make it worse if he continues? is the question he asks himself in case there is doubt about someone staying in the game...
...LISTEN! THE WIND-Anne Morrow Lindbergh-Harcourt, Brace...
...established program, the principal instruments of which are the informal week-end discussion groups which have met during the past few years. To these industrial house-parties come the invited representatives of prominent firms, who meet together to confer on some large industrial problem. They listen to the views of Harvard professors and other business experts on the latest developments in commerce and production, hear the philosophies and arguments of opposing sides in current business controversies. They discuss and debate among themselves, attempting to formulate their own opinions. They take time out from the mechanical pursuit of their daily business...