Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...communications with the rest of Luzon were cut. For two days there was fighting. Sixty people were killed before a radical group, the Sakdalistas, whose leader Benigno Ramos directed the uprising from his exile in Tokyo, was finally suppressed. Underfed workers and poverty-stricken tenant farmers continued to listen eagerly to Sakdalista and Communist agitators. Recently, however, the signs of discontent seemed to have ebbed...
Meanwhile amid catcalls and cheers, Premier Blum had gone to Geneva full of plans for a new World Economic Conference, but he found British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden disinclined to listen. Mr. Eden's entourage gave out that the Foreign Secretary, "weakened by chicken pox," was going to spend a week "regaining his strength" on the Riviera...
...antique tongue. Master's wife good company. Some talk about new parietal rules, plans for House dances. Back to the Attic a little after nine and an hour reading Kleist's "Prinz Friederich von Homburg" with text in one hand and Langenscheidts "Deutsch-Englisch" in the other. Listen to the radio and desultory talk with room-mates till...
...darned if she wanted to live a campus life on any rah rah girls' campus. Radcliffe can listen to lectures by some of the world's leading scholars. Radcliffe has a University atmosphere and is near an important cultural city...
...fussy old President Josiah Quincy in 1836. The Bicentenary graduating class had 39 members, less than contemporary Dartmouth, Princeton, Union, or Yale. A handful of New England college presidents were invited to be the learned guests of honor. All but President Heman Humphrey of Amherst declined the opportunity to listen to President Quincy's two-hour historical oration. Josiah Quincy was bitterly disappointed that his Bicentennial was less an academic festival than a convivial reunion of Harvardmen. In one form or another this year, the Harvard Tercentenary has been going on since June, with conventions of scholars entertained...