Word: heard
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hell" of Mesopotamian heat and disease, and regulars who have to guard the "no man's land" dividing India from Afghanistan and Kashmir. This work is as necessary as munitions factories and telegraphs in the organization of a big army and after all the stories I have heard from men who have been away up the Tigris, I don't believe I can complain at being spared the rotten food and constant fevers of East Africa and Mesopotamia...
...clever rhetoric, sets forth the reasons why the United States, fol- ly as much as any other nation in the world, needs an adequate army and navy. To the believer in preparedness, this book will bring a newer and saner plea for defense than any he has yet heard; to the pacifist who is still open to reason, it cannot but bring certain doubts as to the realization of the dream of national disarmament. Certainly it will make him feel that the time is not yet ripe for such a step by the richest nation in the world...
...Peabody '69, presiding. Dean Fenn, representing the School, spoke of its achievement. "The number of graduates, 1,500 during the past century, is not in itself great. The Andover Seminary, during the same period of time, graduated over 3,500 men. But the number of men who have been heard from after they have left the School is remarkable." Of the 500 men now living connected with the School from 1876-96 one in seven has been eminent enough to be mentioned...
...Heard...
Just then we heard a particularly nasty old whistler go over and saw him light on the road among the trees just where the road bent to the left. A few moments later we arrived on the spot...