Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Though never noted for artistic sensibilities, President Coolidge was more than equal to a Founder's Day celebration and international painting exhibit at Carnegie Institute, the occasion for his Pittsburgh visit. Diplomats from France, Italy, Belgium, Rumania, Austria & Holland sat by and heard the history of Pittsburgh interpreted as a characteristic evolution of U. S. culture. Beginning 150 years ago with the pioneers who "could face facts," "grapple with realities" and subdue savages; touching briefly on George Washington, the University of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh's present bank clearances (9.198 billions) ; recounting with admiration the rise of an alien...
...prohibitions wanted by the company, against the unionists throwing rocks at company officials or dynamiting company land, against trespassing, loitering or even parading near company property. By any such acts, implied Judge Schoonmaker, the United Mine Workers might "hamper interstate trade." Repeal Move. The A. F. of L. convention heard all about the Schoonmaker injunction from Lee Hall, a United Mine Worker from Columbus, Ohio. Speeches were fiery in denunciation of "government by injunction. " Vice President Matthew Woll adjured his brethren to bring the issue before the country "dramatically, tragically, if necessary," and reiterated what Labor has felt ever since...
...TIME, July 11). When she told the board she was an atheist and that she would not personally bear arms for the U.S. because " I understood that women are not required to bear arms in the United States," the board refused her citizenship. Last week the Schwimmer Case was heard in the U.S. District Court by Judge George A. Carpenter, who asked Mme. Schwimmer another question...
...born in Erzerum, Armenia, of a merchant family which held up their hard worked hands in horror when young Nikita divulged a yearning for the stage. Nikita shrugged his not, in those days, so very hardworked shoulders, deserted the family, who promptly cast him off, and was presently heard knocking at the stage door of the great Art Theatre in Moscow...
...contentions. We are all affected by this: "It would happen, for instance, that the striking of an old clock, the sight of a landscape, the melody of a song, an aroma, or even a mere combination of words, impressed themselves on my mind, as distinctly as if I had heard, seen, inhaled or otherwise experienced the same thing already; as though this place or that place, which actually I was seeing for the first time in my present existence, had met my eyes in some dim past...