Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Planetary Thinkers." The graduating class at Stanford University heard Dr. John Huston Finley of the New York Times utter the following: "Your president, Dr. Wilbur,* and your most distinguished graduate, Herbert Hoover . . . are the foremost planetary thinkers of this...
...very flower among U. S. diplomats, not a shirt-sleever, not a spat-wearing expatriate, but a comfortable man of kindly shrewdness, a man from Emporia who walked unruffled through Rumanian intrigue, won confidence, kept respect. Minister Culburtson was in Bucharest when the late Prime Minister Jon Bratiano heard from trustworthy sources of the effect produced upon U. S. public opinion by the tour of Queen Marie, and despatched the secret cablegram which resulted in Her Majesty's precipitant return...
Though the phenomenon of the Shahkta Trial is now in its second month, proceedings are still in the most preliminary stage. No evidence has been heard concerning the Prosecution's astounding charge that the sabotage ring was partially financed by one of the greatest public utility corporations in the world, the A. E. G. (Allgemeine Elektrizitats-Gesellschaft) or General Electric Company of Germany...
Only once in ten years an unknown player finishes in front. Few had heard of Sarazen when he won; no one had heard of Hagen when he came to fame in 1914. Practically unknown were the two golfers who on the first day at Olympia Fields led all the rest. Henry Guici was one, a tiny player, dark-haired, quick-tempered. Frank Ball tied Guici with a 70. No one knew anything about him except that he was a cousin of John Ball, famed Britisher. Either Guici or Ball might win, of course, but the bookmakers didn't think...
...Reading about Hearst may well become a national pastime. The man is like a character in a Greek myth; people have heard dozens of tales about him, suspect or imagine dozens more, know for a fact very few. Writer Winkler once worked for him and knows him as well as any man is permitted to know...