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Word: heard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most sections it was a fairly friendly strike, with jokes and chaffing between picketers and guards?until last week. Then Louis N. Scherf, whom Governor William H. Adams had placed in charge of the State Law Enforcement Bureau, which was revived to meet the strike conditions, heard of a mass meeting to be held at Boulder prior to an advance on the Columbine mine, one of the few properties in the northern part of the state which had been able to continue operations. Mr. Scherf took a squad of 20 state police and hurried upstate to the Columbine. Adjutant General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wobbling | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...blood and breeding of a Howard* are not compatible with direct censure of a "Big Bill" Thompson; but the direction of Sir Esme's lance was evident when he commenced to tilt, thus: "We have heard so much lately from another place of the danger of British propaganda in this country that I was beginning to wonder whether the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers gathered here to celebrate the landing of their ancestors at Plymouth might not have feared that the presence of the British Ambassador tonight might bring with it some dread infection of the terrible disease known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sir Esme Speaks | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...fell on his knees, clasped a crucifix to his breast, prayed briefly. Rising, he walked resolutely to the garden wall, turned his back upon it, and extended his hands in the gesture of benediction, crying: "May God have mercy on you all!" An instant later the listening crowd outside heard three crisp commands: "Ready . . . Aim . . . Fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Ready . . .Aim. . .Fire! | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...have tried, to analyze the proceedings as they have been presented. We have heard individuals from the Pacific coast and we have heard individuals from the Atlantic coast express their opinions on the writings of other individuals. But I can't understand why real evidence upon the charges is not presented. I am willing to listen to the long-haired patriot from the Pacific coast. I am willing to listen to the witnesses from the Atlantic coast but [his voice rose with anger] I am not willing to listen to Mr. Russell, a Socialist ['prosecution' witness testifying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: McAndrew Walks Out | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

Last week Mr. Katz was in Manhattan for the Orthodox Congregations convention. There he heard the convention asked to approve men & women sitting together in synagogs, and he blazed. "Jewish law is clear on the subject. We need no argument on that here. Five hundred years from now the Orthodox synagog will find the women and the men still seated separately, and we do not want to depart from the law today!" The rabbis agreed with him. They decided to establish a national board of Jewish education to train children of the Orthodox in Hebrew knowledge and Jewish religion. Already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Orthodox Jews Convene | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

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