Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story you published in the current issue of TIME (July 25, p. 23, col. 3) under the head: "Elks" where you refer to them at their Cincinnati convention as 5,000 strong, "marching, singing, trapshooting, eating 'burgoo' [Kentucky stew], watching fire-works." I visited Cincinnati the following week and heard nothing of trapshooting, but everybody could point out to me the big hotel in front of which crap-shooting was indulged in openly and without molestation by the police authorities. Of course I was told this with a wry face - on the part of the Cincinnatians who do not ordinarily...
...President Calvin Coolidge and Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg both announced entire satisfaction during the week at the stand taken in Geneva by U. S. Chief Delegate Hugh S Gibson (TIME, June 27, et seq.). Similar expressions of content were heard at the British Foreign Office; and statesmen said with great candor at Washington and London that the U. S. and British delegations would renew their negotiations at Geneva on exactly the same basis of unyielding deadlock as before...
...Institute opened with a greeting from President Coolidge, who said that he had heard of the Institute's work and believed that true friendship would result from mutual understanding issuing from frank discussion. Then Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur,* President of Stanford University and chairman of the Institute, predicted that the U. S. would realize that though people of other races are different they are not inferior, and predicted that the quota system of immigration would eventually be extended to peoples of Asiatic countries. Sessions of the conference were to continue until July 29. The Pacific Institute can discuss conditions...
...four years before Guglielmo Marconi took out patents in Britain-Nikola Tesla patented in the U. S. a system of wireless transmission. A scarehead newspaper heard his prophecy that soon ships at sea would call electrically for help, to other ships or shore stations, without having any wired connection. The scarehead editor, well aware of his sheet's reputation, said: "We could not afford to print such a piece of inventive lunacy...
...London last week, the members of the British Empire cancer campaign, which is functioning somewhat in the manner of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, heard described the slow motion photography of living cancer cells. A motion picture camera is focused on a cancer sore and operated slowly for varying periods up to two days. The long negative is developed and a positive film made. When the reel is projected on a screen the cancer cells, magnified, are seen spreading, moving, creeping, quite like budding flowers seen in slow motion pictures. The process is expected to reveal...