Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...willing workers listened politely to Mr. Francisco. They heard later that he spent a whole evening trying to telephone across the continent to Governor Smith and persuade him to withdraw at once. They were not offended when, departing in a huff, Mr. Francisco addressed them as a "meeting of the Bowery of a few small western towns...
...have never heard you whistle...
...your own room and think as long as you please. Only let me have a positive answer as I am quite dependent on you. ... I would share a kingdom with you if I had it. . . ." Peggy, who later watched her husband chasing every young woman he met, who heard true rumors about his three bastards, wrote back briefly, beautifully, to tell Jimmy Boswell that she would marry...
...football season of 1927 went into the intensive training stage and some few teams heard the whistle of their opening games. Falling on the Ball. Thousands of boys and young men scowled blackly and flung themselves upon one another. Also, they flung them selves at footballs bouncing on the turf, and lost their tempers. The time-honored opening exercise of football practice (falling on the ball) vexed them...
...have just heard from the company which supplies us with our instruments, that their business has increased to such an extent among the colleges that they are at present more than 10,000 saxaphone orders behind...