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Word: listening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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With an eye toward next year's football season and an idea for exploring new fields, the Band has taken on the largest Spring program in their history. Playing for anyone that will listen, apparently quite a few people, they will appear at 11 conventions, carnivals, colleges, and concerts before June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Arranges Full Spring Program Of Conventions, Concerts, Parades | 1/27/1951 | See Source »

...Thousand Times Good-Night." In Cairo, Egypt, Aliyah Ibrahim got a divorce after telling the judge that her husband's passion for reading poetry aloud interfered with her sleep: "It is not worthwhile getting up in the middle of the night to listen to Shakespeare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 22, 1951 | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

...fetched up on salt-rising bread and black-eyed peas." He parked his planes in the open, repaired them in Honduran air force shops. Since TACA and SAHSA already had radio range and weather stations, Joe saw no reason to duplicate them. "I just turn on the radio and listen to their weather reports," he says blandly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONDURAS: Flying Wildcatter | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

...Look & Listen. Settlemayer borrowed merchandising ideas from retail stores ("Sure we are selling; we're selling reading"). When he learned that supermarkets find it hard to sell anything stacked below knee-level, he rearranged the Atlanta library shelves accordingly. He insists that new books be displayed in the publisher's fresh jackets, is replacing worn-out classics with bright new editions. "We even put magazines in the racks in their own covers. We don't want them in the old 'library' bindings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Salesman in Atlanta | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...Balance Wheel was plainly intended to be read as a political-economic allegory. Veteran Caldwell fans may ignore such implications, and read the book for the same reason they listen to soap opera: to get the dirt, dished by an expert, on a dozen or more private lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fast Typing | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

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