Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I like TIME very much. I was very much amused in a statement that you made in TIME several months ago, which was: "Virginia's chief industries are female academies." I take it for granted that you have never been to Va. or heard mention of that state. Please visit us or look it up and correct your statement in an early issue of TIME. If you do, we will excuse you this time...
...crew were at that time lost in the fog and did not alight on the sea near Ver-sur-Mer until two hours later. In a tardy checking of the false report, an A. P. correspondent found a lone watchman at Issy Les Moulineaux, who had neither seen nor heard an airplane...
Those who heard this last announcement chuckled or swore, then retired to a peaceful repose. Not so did hundreds who had not listened to the end, but instead had rushed from their homes, leaped into motor cars, and dashed for remote wooded places where they could hide unnoticed...
...went to the Royal Institute at Milan to study to be an engineer and "an expert businessman." One day, he heard that a Frenchman, Leon Delagrange, had made a six-minute airplane flight.* His dreams suddenly took shape-he would build ships of the air; he would learn to sail them...
...Reiner will open the season, will conduct more concerts than any of the others. All these musicians have been heard in Philadelphia with the exception of Sir Thomas Beecham, who is best known in England, whence he recently departed in disgust because the government subsidized radio concerts...