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Word: listen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...card room and I'd listen to 'er line...

Author: By R. M. M., | Title: THE CRIME | 12/20/1928 | See Source »

Long before the noon hour of meeting, members congregated on the House floor to talk, to listen, to laugh, to mill around, to exude cordiality, to slap backs, to wring friendly hands, to encircle familiar shoulders. Two prime conversational topics predominated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Seventieth Sits | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...cigarettes are still holding out, and so are the magazines and so, while you're smoking and reading, listen to something that sounds terrible, and really is rather interesting. The record is "VISION OF LOVE," and "BEAUTIFUL HEAVENS." Accordion Solos, with Banjo Accompaniment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORDS | 11/28/1928 | See Source »

...this time too he sent first general alarm, as far as is known, a C Q radio signal to other ships meaning "everybody listen." An hour later he sent SOS giving his position. To New York office of Lamport & Holt Line he reported: "During the night developed 32-degree list. Starboard decks under water. Ship lying on beam-ends. Impossible to proceed anywhere. Sea moderately rough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Vestris | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

Charles Michael Schwab arose at the American Institute of Steel Construction, in session in Mississippi, and said: "Boys, listen to the old steel master from Bethlehem. I am getting old [66]. ... I have learned a lot since I started as a boy with Mr. Carnegie. I learned a lot about steel, but more important I learned a lot about life. Ah, that is the thing. Be happy. . . . When my time comes to die I do not want to be surrounded by granite and marble. I want to be amidst steel, beams and 'Ls' where I have been happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 26, 1928 | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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