Word: heard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
State-Attorney General Russell heard arguments at Albany yesterday on the application for the beginning of proceedings for the annulment of the charter of the Western Union Telegraph Company. General Swayne argued in opposition to the motion and General Barlow...
...Were heard strange groans and rattles...
...always has been of Yale's, and by which, at the same time, Yale should be pushed down correspondingly low by depriving her of all that could put her on a par with Harvard. Immediately the cry of withdrawing from the league was hushed and has not been heard of since...
...ventured to look out. Prof. Butcher, the new Greek professor, was received with a loud cheer on arriving, a lane toward the doorway being opened for him at the same time. The professor smilingly acknowledged the compliment, and was making his way into the hall when several students were heard to say "Let's give him a squeeze." The scene that ensued is described as being simply disgraceful. The professor was hustled, squeezed against the railings, pelted with peas, and attempts made to knock off his hat with sticks, and his coat was torn. Ultimately he got relief by Professor...
...other eccentricities in the game of 'Hare and Hounds,' might have supposed the Somerville Asylum or the School for Feeble-Minded Youth had let their young inmates out for an airing. 'Up hill and down dale,' 'in and out and round about' they went, while at intervals might be heard the inspiring sound, 'Tally Ho,' 'Tally Ho,' which to the initiated meant that the lost 'trail' of scraps of white paper was again 'scented.' Great excitement prevailed when the trail was once lost at the river bank in Brighton, and then discovered to be continued on the opposite bank; however...