Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thereafter when the white man told tall tales about flying machines he was politely listened to with visible tolerance, but if he pressed his story, or attempted to substantiate it with pictures, he was ceremoniously escorted to the beach to view the bleached remains of the white man's folly, and to listen to the proper member of the local chief's staff comment sadly on "white man's lies...
...love to listen to the wagon wheels...
Although this change has undoubtedly come for reasons of expediency as well as any other, it does show that the H.A.A. is willing to listen, even though not to act, on every suggestion. When the Student Council appointed a special committee to investigate this particular branch of undergraduate, life, another indication that the H.A.A. was not as interested in the opinion of the student body as might be expected was brought to light...
...sound proclamation J. Stalin gently beat his breast as he cried: "We should not think that if we are members of the Central Committee of People's Commissars we possess all the knowledge necessary to give correct leadership. Rank in itself gives neither knowledge nor experience. We must listen attentively to the voice of the masses and of the rank and file of the party, to the voice of the so-called little people...
...alumnus of Oberlin College, Professor Griswold was a member of the Law School Class of 1928, at which time he was president of the Law Review. After working in the Attorney General's office for five years, when Washington circles declared that the Supreme Court would rather listen to him and John W. Davis than any other barristers, Professor Griswold came back to the Law School to give courses on tax cases and conflicts of laws...