Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge and her husband-smiled when they heard how, in the 'Chicago station, John set his lips and doggedly repeated to the newspapermen: "I have nothing to say. I have nothing...
...southern ice continent. Happily for him, Commander Byrd was so impressed by his courage and excellent stamina that he has given him permission to stay with the expedition. Two white boys who stowed away were put off ere the ship got out of the harbor because sailors heard them arguing. The black boy goes. The promoters of the first trip to the moon had better examine their rocket carefully if they would make sure that no adventurous Negro is aboard...
...Congress, after receiving the President's great and inspiring address with cheers, heard from Speaker of the House Colonel Ricardo Topete who is also leader of the Majority or Obregonista Party, a crisp declaration that the Party pledges itself to follow the advice and program laid down by Plutarco Elias Calles...
...neon gaslight signs now rapidly appearing in every large city of the world have aroused suspicion-that they gave out ultraviolet rays injurious to the eyes. In Buenos Aires one P. Satanowsky quieted fears by having assistants work in neon light several hours daily for several days. His conclusion, heard in the U. S. last week, was that the light is not injurious, that the glass of the tubes containing the neon gas absorbs all the ultraviolet light...
...remote countries of the world-China, Russia-John Dewey is known and revered as the wizard of education (TIME, June 4). In the U. S. this prophet is not without honor save among the vast majority of citizens who never heard of him, so inconspicuously has he undermined all philosophy, all pedagogy. Dressed in sombre prose, his sensational thinking has not gained the easy popularity of Freud's shilling-shockers, or William James's eminently readable volumes...