Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, a boy on a bicycle zigzagged casually along a busy street, preventing honking automobiles from passing him. "Listen, you," cried Peter Valenchian from one of the cars. "Do you wanta get killed?" Straightway the boy dismounted, strode up to Valenchian's car, plunged a stiletto into Valenchian's heart, pedaled away...
...million people who listen to Major Bowes and his amateurs, Murray Hill is the name of a New York telephone exchange which you call to vote for your favorite. To Kappa Alpha's Feg Murray, the cartoonist, it stands for a section of the city of New York named for his family...
This morning the Vagabond will listen to Professor Hooton lecture on "Race Characteristics" at ten o'clock in the Semitic Museum...
...satisfying feeling for any Harvard man, and especially for the men who listen to the testimony brought to the meetings of concentrators for the Confidential Guide, to find a Department which the undergraduates really consider top-notch. Such a Department is Biology, for in all but a few instances the courses are well-taught, many of the teachers exhibit a desire to be of more than impersonal help to the students, and the plant and equipment with which the Department labors ranks as among the finest laboratory facilities in the Country. And the field is valuable to the undergraduate...
...immediately rested upon the piano. Schumann hastened to ask: "Won't you please play something of your own composition?" Without more encouragement the gauche musician sat down and began to play his C major Sonata. Before he had proceeded far, his host cried: "Wait, Gott im Himmel, Clara must listen to this...