Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kettering prefaces many of his observations with the words "Say" or "Listen." He likes aphorisms, posts his office walls with signs such as: "A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere," and: "Nothing is so conducive to thought as the sheriff," is deeply interested in why grass is green. Last year Mr. Kettering made...
...remarkable feats of Johnny and Florie have taught ambitious parents to listen with respect when Dr. Myrtle Byram McGraw speaks on baby training. In the Normal Child Development Clinic of Manhattan's Neurological Institute, Assistant Director McGraw took two pairs of identical twins, turned one member of each pair into a prodigy of confidence and skill (TIME, Sept. 18, 1933 et seq.). Last week pretty, inventive Dr. McGraw told members of Manhattan's Town Hall Club about a new twist in her campaign for brighter babies...
...living here. You get a chance to transcend your habits; you have to look for things anew; you get a chance to wonder--and that, Sir, is the beginning of all philosophy. Professor Whitehead will tell you more about that. Go to Emerson A at 12 today and listen...
...Listen, rat! Who do you think you're talking to anyway?" So saying he pulled a huge knife from his pocket. HE struggled vainly for some minutes to open the blade. Finally he hurled it through the window sending a shower of shattered glass around the room. All the other boys and girls laughed. They thought Burlingame as pretty funny...
Gentlemen: This afternoon, Professor Wright, at three o'clock in Harvard one will talk on the "Judicial review of Congressional legislation". The Vagabond does suggest that you brace yourself and go and listen...