Word: heard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large audience which listened last evening to Prof. Thompson's lecture on Protection was amply repaid by the eloquent and convincing discourse which they heard. It was a presentation of historical evidence which seems to indicate the wisdom of our present tariff policy. There is no better way of arriving at the truth of a theory than by studying its workings in the past, it has given use to the Historical School of Economists. England, the champion of industrial economics, first demands our attention. She was for a long time, in the very early stages of development, a free trade...
...break into a room in the north entry of Hollis. The burglars were frightened away, however, by the occupants of the room before they succeeded in effecting an entrance. As this occurrence has been reported to the police it is safe to predict that nothing farther will be heard from...
...known to them, that all persons studying in the alcoves of the library, have an intense curiosity to hear whatever is said in their neighborhood. Now some of the late arrivals have not yet acquired the courage to converse loud enough in the reading room to be distinctly heard. They communicate with each other in an audible murmur, which arouses the curiosity and interferes with the work of everybody near them, but gratifies the curiosity of no one. Consequently, there is a general suspense and impatience, which is very telling on the nervous force of some of the weaker students...
...into which are turned at present all the strength of body and skill in team work which are found in the college. Lacross if properly fostered, ought in time to take a position equal to those sports, might by its manly attributes help to do away with the much heard of and greatly bewailed brutality in college sports...
...floor and in the first gallery was taken, and later the second gallery also was filled up. Those who came last thus found themselves unfortunately situated. for Mr. Gosse, though better in this respect than any other English lecturer who has visited us, could only be imperfectly heard at times in the back of the hall. In other respects Mr. Gosse's delivery was unusually good. His voice was pleasing in quality and well modulated. The poems he read, especially the translation in blank verse from the Inferno were rendered exceedingly effective by his good delivery...